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The Oort cloud is traditionally thought of as a vast shell of perhaps trillions of icy objects encasing our solar system, ...

Astronomers have spotted an intriguing cluster of objects in the Kuiper belt, the enormous, donut-shaped region of icy objects beyond the orbit of Neptune. As New Scientist reports, it’s the second ...

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Astronomers have spotted an intriguing cluster of objects in the Kuiper belt, the enormous, donut-shaped region of icy objects beyond the orbit of Neptune. This latest “inner kernel” was identified by ...