The cold, donut-shaped region known as the Kuiper Belt is full of icy bodies. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The Kuiper ...

For years, scientists have been scanning the icy outskirts of our Solar System for an unknown massive planet. The ...

Known as Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs), astronomers have noticed a rise in the number of these bodies. They are between 70 and 90 astronomical units from the Sun but are much farther away from the ...

Astronomers Dave Jewitt and Jane Luu discovered the first icy body in the Kuiper Belt, known as 1992 QB1, in 1992. Since then, a further 3,000 KBOs have been cataloged.

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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), operated by NASA, has uncovered intriguing new details about Charon—Pluto’s largest ...

The solar system’s Kuiper Belt is beyond Neptune’s orbit and home to Pluto and a slew of other icy bodies. Ari Gea/SayoStudio ...

What processes during the formation of Pluto's largest moon, Charon, potentially led to it having cryovolcanism, and even an ...

There are also a few other hang-ups, as these Kuiper Belt bodies can become unstable during their journey toward the inner Solar System, and such a catastrophic impact on Mars could instigate ...

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Their unique nature has to do with their relative distance from both the Sun and the “first” Kuiper Belt, which lies roughly 35 to 55 astronomical units (AU) out from the center of our Solar ...

Astronomers Dave Jewitt and Jane Luu discovered the first icy body in the Kuiper Belt, known as 1992 QB1, in 1992. Since then, a further 3,000 KBOs have been cataloged.