The finding offers fresh insight into our solar system’s farthest, coldest objects in a region known as the Kuiper Belt.

A rare observation opportunity revealed the presence of a thin atmosphere around a small object beyond Pluto.

If confirmed, the rock would become just the second world past Neptune in our solar system to host an atmosphere.

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Astronomers have detected a thin atmosphere around the small trans-Neptunian object (612533) 2002 XV93, the first such finding beyond Pluto. Observed during a rare stellar occultation in January 2024, ...

Hundreds of thousands of icy rocks lurk around in the Kuiper Belt, a place discovered just a few decades ago, and exists far beyond Neptune. As a NASA spacecraft sojourns deeper into space, it has ...

A new study from BYU professor of physics and astronomy Darin Ragozzine and former undergraduate student Maia Nelsen provides new insight into the structure of objects in the Kuiper Belt. Using data ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has uncovered an intriguing development. Having spent months speeding through the outer edges of the Kuiper Belt, the New Horizons has learned a good deal about the belt ...

In the outer reaches of the Solar System, beyond the ice giant Neptune, lies a ring of comets and dwarf planets known as the Kuiper Belt. The closest of these objects are billions of kilometers away.

Astronomers have detected a thin atmosphere around trans-Neptunian object (612533) 2002 XV93, the first such find beyond Pluto. The atmosphere, possibly methane, nitrogen, or carbon monoxide, is ...