Astronomers have uncovered the largest and most distant water reservoir ever detected in the universe. This staggering ...

New Solar Composition Ratios That Could Reconcile Longstanding Questions Nov. 12, 2024 — A team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids and comets ...

On the first day of 2019, NASA’s spacecraft flew past the ancient Kuiper Belt object called Arrokoth, giving the world its first close up look. “Using detailed data on the object’s shape, geology, ...

Webb also has the sensitivity to view most of the Kuiper Belt Objects ... the quasar gives us extensive information about the composition and state of the gas,” explained Anna-Christina Eilers ...

Astronomers have discovered two exoplanets around TOI-1453, a star about 250 light years away. These two exoplanets, a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune, are common in the galaxy, yet are absent from our ...

A newly identified Kuiper Belt trio, possibly only the second of its kind, could provide strong evidence that these distant ...

Floating around at the edge of the Solar System are leftovers from its formation. This is the Kuiper Belt, which is composed ...

Early in our Solar System’s history, bits of icy debris were scattered and then gradually coaxed into a spiral alignment in ...

Astronomers have discovered what they believed to be a rare stable trio of gravitationally bound Kuiper Belt objects, ...

Could a giant planet between Mars and Jupiter have doomed Earth? A new study suggests that small changes would have been ...

The Kuiper belt, a distant region of icy bodies beyond Neptune, is home to many celestial wonders. Among them, one particular trio of space rocks has recently caught the attention of scientists.