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.

Scientists are exploring the possibility of a hidden ninth planet in our solar system. The planet, dubbed Planet Nine, is believed to exist beyond Neptune in the Kuiper Belt. Researchers have ...

Behind the planets in the solar system is the Kuiper Belt. An inventory of similar structures around other stars shows how unusual it is. A research team has used several telescopes to take images ...

Pluto likely acquired large moon Charon in a “kiss and capture” collision billions of years ago. It may have created a subsurface ocean on the icy dwarf planet.

Pluto-Charon Formation Scenario Mimics Earth-Moon System Jan. 7 ... data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids and comets with new solar data sets to develop a revised solar ...

The team behind this research thinks that two frigid worlds located in the Kuiper Belt, a ring of icy bodies located far from the sun at the edge of the solar system, collided together billions of ...

The SDC has revealed peak dust fluxes near the Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt, suggesting it is a significant source of IDPs in the outer solar system. The ongoing measurements from the SDC are vital for ...

Simpson and Chen ran mathematical models looking at how differently sized Earth-like worlds would have affected the rest of ...

Pluto, considered the ninth planet in our solar system until it was reclassified ... orbiting each other in a cosmic dance in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune’s orbit. However, a recent study ...

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 ...