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The lakes of Titan, a moon of Saturn, are bodies of liquid methane that have been detected by the Cassini space probe, and had been suspecte...

The Innermost moons of Neptune In 1989, Voyager 2 found some small tiny bodies revolving around Neptune closely..They were the 4 innermost ...

951 Gaspra 951 Gaspra orbits the Sun near the inner edge of the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. orbit: 330,000...

A meteor is a bright streak of light in the sky (a "shooting star" or a "falling star") produced by the entry of a smal...

Officially known as 2003 VB12, this object is the most distant body known that orbits our Sun. It is at present over 90 AUs away, 3 times as...

The Kuiper Belt is a disk-shaped region past the orbit of Neptune extending roughly from 30 to 50 AU from the Sun containing many small icy...

Unlike the other small bodies in the solar system, comets have been known since antiquity. There are Chinese records of Comet Halley going b...

1 Ceres is by far the largest of the asteroids, comprising more than a third of the total mass of the main asteroid belt. Ceres is also the ...

Eris (aka 2003 UB 313, Xena) is the largest currently known member of the Kuiper Belt and the largest of the dwarf planets. orbit: ...

Pluto orbits beyond the orbit of Neptune (usually). It is much smaller than any of the official planets and now classified as a "dwarf ...

Neptune is the eighth planet from the Sun and the fourth largest (by diameter). Neptune is smaller in diameter but larger in mass than Uranu...

Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun and the third largest (by diameter). Uranus is larger in diameter but smaller in mass than Neptune...