Out in the Kuiper Belt, the massive doughnut of debris beyond Neptune, about one in 10 kilometer-scale objects have surprised scientists with their unexpected shape. Rather than resembling a ball, ...

Research adds weight to theory Arrokoth’s two lobes produced by gravitational collapse – and reveals process ...

Researchers simulated how gravitational collapse forms two-lobed contact binaries in the Kuiper Belt without destructive ...

Einige Kometen und auch das transneptunische Objekt Arrokoth ähneln eher einem Schneemann als einem Himmelskörper: Sie bestehen aus zwei aneinanderklebenden K ...

Astronomers have puzzled for years over a strange pattern in the outer solar system. A surprising number of icy bodies far beyond Neptune resemble snowmen, made of two rounded lobes stuck together.

Astronomers have long debated why so many icy objects in the outer solar system look like snowmen. Michigan State University ...

Astronomers have long debated why so many icy objects in the outer solar system look like snowmen. Michigan State University researchers now have ...

Learn why some icy objects inhabiting a remote region beyond Neptune look like snowmen.

The finding, published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, offers an explanation based on a surprisingly simple process: gravitational collapse. For years, the scientific ...