On a frigid orbit beyond Neptune, some of the solar system’s smallest worlds project a strange silhouette. Two rounded lobes, ...

Improving research on planetary formation comes from an out-of-this-world innovation made right here in Michigan. In previous models, simulations resulted in an amorphous blob, as if the batter was ...

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