Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast expanse of icy bodies that may hold clues to the solar system’s formation. These ...

The so-called 'planetesimal belts' are filled with tiny millimeter-sized particles created by collisions between comets.

Acombination of data from the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii and NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has uncovered a significant ...

Nov. 12, 2024 — A team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids and comets with new solar data sets to develop a revised solar composition that ...

"We were definitely surprised by the 'kiss' part of kiss-and-capture. There hasn't really been a kind of impact before where the two bodies only temporarily merge before re-separating!" ...

Learn what this survey recorded of exocomet belts, which imaged and identified bands of every size.

Behind the planets in the solar system is the Kuiper Belt. An inventory of similar structures around other stars shows how unusual it is.

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Defender of Kuiper Belt Fight against alien invaders with your powerful spaceship. This is a bullet hell game which puts your dodging skills to a true test.

Pluto belongs to a group of objects that distantly orbit the sun called the Kuiper Belt, where thousands of icy remnants left over from the formation of the solar system linger. Eight of the 10 ...

This region, known as the Kuiper Belt, is home to a diverse array of icy bodies, including dwarf planets like Pluto, Haumea, and Makemake. Recent research has significantly advanced our ...