Those of you following NASA's New Horizons know the interplanetary space probe made the farthest-ever flyby in human history on New Year's Day, when it circled Ultima Thule, an object in Kuiper Belt.

New Horizons, which performed history's first flyby of Pluto this past July, took four photos of a 90-mile-wide (150 kilometers) Kuiper Belt object called 1994 JR1 on Nov. 2, from a distance of ...

Each of those show a Kuiper Belt object: The one on the left is known as 2012 HZ84, and on the right is 2012 HE85. These new record-setting images are also the closest-ever images taken of KBOs.

Thirty years ago, astronomers found the Kuiper Belt, a region of space home to Pluto and other icy worlds that helped show how the solar system evolved.

New Horizons has been incredibly successful at exploring the outer solar system, providing the first detailed images of both the dwarf planet Pluto and a smaller Kuiper Belt object (KBO) called ...

Neptune’s gravity kept the Kuiper Belt’s objects from joining together into a single large planet. Photo Credit: NASA The Kuiper Belt starts at 30 AU from the Sun and extends to about 50 AU.

The mission provided detailed images and data of the object, which is located approximately 4 billion miles from Earth in the Kuiper Belt, a region of icy bodies beyond Neptune.

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 ...

The Kuiper Belt showed higher levels of dust than models suggested. The dust is a symptom of its environment and could mean several things that the New Horizons team hopes to one day answer.

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