The Kuiper Belt is far larger than the main asteroid belt, up to 20 times as wide and 20 to 100 times it's mass according to Nine Planets. Related: Why is Pluto not a planet? You may like ...

Discovery of 2017OF201, a large trans-Neptune Object, challenges previous beliefs about the Kuiper Belt and hints at the existence of a theoretical Planet Nine.

A competing theory proposes the existence of a hidden Kuiper Belt planet that’s smaller, with a mass between 1.5 and 3 times that of our world. Caltech/R. Hur The push for more evidence ...

There were estimates that the amount of material in the Kuiper belt is 2% of the mass of the Earth but that it started it at 10 times the mass of the Earth. However, there was a computational analysis ...

Since the first member of the Kuiper belt was discovered 1 in 1992, many unexpected features of their orbits and physical properties have been uncovered. One surprise was the very low total mass ...

So far, about 40 binary systems have been identified in the Kuiper Belt. With two triple systems now strongly suspected, scientists believe there could be many more waiting to be discovered. A ...

Pluto and its moon Charon possibly “kissed” billions of years ago, a new report shows. Elenarts – stock.adobe.com. The authors suggest that Pluto and Charon, located in the Kuiper Belt at ...

Amazon's next group of Kuiper satellites could soon reach orbit, propelling the company closer to providing internet to ...

Because the Kuiper Belt was thought to end at a distance of about 48 AU, the Solar System used to seem small compared to exosolar systems, where there are still objects floating around 150 AU from ...

Super-Pluto? Competing Kuiper Belt theories A study published in August 2023 proposes the existence of a hidden planet that’s actually much smaller, with a mass between 1.5 and 3 times that of ...