A brand-new group of frozen objects, orbiting the sun out beyond the distant Kuiper Belt, has been spotted by the Subaru telescope, working with NASA's New Horizons mission to find new targets for the ...

Astronomers at Princeton University have uncovered evidence that the outer solar system is more structured than long believed ...

Survey observations using the Subaru Telescope’s ultra-widefield prime focus camera have revealed that there may be a population of small bodies further out in the Kuiper Belt waiting to be discovered ...

Far beyond Neptune, astronomers have finally confirmed a compact clump of icy worlds hiding inside the Kuiper Belt, a feature ...

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 ...

Moons are common throughout the solar system, orbiting planets, asteroids, and even distant Kuiper belt objects. But could a ...

A new study led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) Planetary Scientist and Associate Vice President Dr. Alan Stern posits that the large, approximately 5-kilometer-long mounds that dominate the ...

486958 Arrokoth in the Kuiper Belt, previously called 2014 MU69 and nicknamed "Ultima Thule" was the farthest object in the solar system visited by a spacecraft when NASA's New Horizons conducted a ...

The trans-Neptunian region, extending beyond Neptune, represents a primordial reservoir of icy and rocky bodies that have remained relatively unchanged since the Solar System’s formation. Central to ...

One hundred years ago today, Dutch-American astronomer Gerard P. Kuiper was born in Harenscarpel, The Netherlands. Just over one month from now, NASA plans to launch its first mission, New Horizons, ...

Pluto, considered the ninth planet in our solar system until it was reclassified to dwarf planet status in 2006, is thought to have undergone an impact that broke off the largest of its five moons, ...

Scientists think the Kuiper Belt Object is a sugar world, which would also explain its reddish hue. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...