The Keck Observatory and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope may have uncovered a "potential three-body system in the Kuiper Belt," ...

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Known as Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs), astronomers have noticed a rise in the number of these bodies. They are between 70 and 90 astronomical units from the Sun but are much farther away from the ...

The initiative is named after the Kuiper belt, a doughnut-shaped region of icy bodies in our solar system extending far beyond the orbit of Neptune – the farthest planet from the sun.

For years, astronomers have been searching for a mysterious ninth planet lurking in the dark outer reaches of our solar ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), operated by NASA, has uncovered intriguing new details about Charon—Pluto’s largest ...

Astronomers Dave Jewitt and Jane Luu discovered the first icy body in the Kuiper Belt, known as 1992 QB1, in 1992. Since then, a further 3,000 KBOs have been cataloged.

What processes during the formation of Pluto's largest moon, Charon, potentially led to it having cryovolcanism, and even an ...

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

There are also a few other hang-ups, as these Kuiper Belt bodies can become unstable during their journey toward the inner Solar System, and such a catastrophic impact on Mars could instigate ...

Their unique nature has to do with their relative distance from both the Sun and the “first” Kuiper Belt, which lies roughly 35 to 55 astronomical units (AU) out from the center of our Solar ...

Astronomers Dave Jewitt and Jane Luu discovered the first icy body in the Kuiper Belt, known as 1992 QB1, in 1992. Since then, a further 3,000 KBOs have been cataloged.