A new theory proposes that Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, was formed billions of years ago through a rare "kiss-and-capture" collision in the Kuiper Belt. This process involves two icy bodies ...
A satellite-based Internet service from Amazon. The name comes from the Kuiper belt, an icy region outside the orbit of Neptune that was named after planetary scientist Gerard Kuiper. Announced in ...
Objects far beyond the Kuiper Belt Both observational instruments discovered objects located beyond the Kuiper Belt—at a ...
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 ...