For the past 400 years, astronomers have sought to observe and interpret the Universe by
building more powerful telescopes. These incredible instruments extend the capabilities of …

At a distance of 1.295 parsecs, the red dwarf Proxima Centauri (α Centauri C, GL 551, HIP
70890 or simply Proxima) is the Sun's closest stellar neighbour and one of the best-studied …

The New Horizons (NH) flyby of the Pluto–Charon binary planet and its system of four small
surrounding satellites in mid-2015 revolutionized our knowledge of this distant planet and its …

Haumea—one of the four known trans-Neptunian dwarf planets—is a very elongated and
rapidly rotating body,,. In contrast to other dwarf planets,,, its size, shape, albedo and density …

The small bodies of our solar system are the remnants of the early stages of planetary
formation. A considerable amount of information regarding the processes that occurred …

Hitherto, rings have been found exclusively around the four giant planets in the Solar
System. Rings are natural laboratories in which to study dynamical processes analogous to …

Abstract The Minerva-Australis telescope array is a facility dedicated to the follow-up,
confirmation, characterization, and mass measurement of planets orbiting bright stars …

Abstract James Webb Space Telescope's NIRSpec infrared imaging spectrometer observed
the outer solar system dwarf planets Eris and Makemake in reflected sunlight at wavelengths …

NASA's New Horizons mission performed the first flyby of a small Kuiper Belt Object
(KBO),(486958) Arrokoth on 1 January 2019. The fast flyby revealed a fascinating, flattened …

Aims. Trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) are bodies populating the Kuiper belt and they are
believed to retain the most pristine and least altered material of the solar system. The …