NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has successfully conducted the first-ever deep space stellar navigation test, while traversing the Kuiper Belt.

A team of researchers has outlined how a new "direct fusion drive" propulsion system could allow us to reach Sedna this ...

Our solar system is a pretty wild place, full of amazing stuff. From the giant Sun to the tiny rocks floating around, there’s ...

The planets in order from the Sun are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. If you include the ...

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

What You Need To Know Project Kuiper satellites are designed to provide internet communications The launch window opened at 2:06 p.m. ET, Friday, Oct. 6 ULA’s famed Atlas V 501 rocket is set to ...

The Atlas V rocket took off from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station to send up nearly 30 Kuiper satellites on Monday night, April 28, 2025.

Atom RSS Feed Asteroids, comets and Kuiper belt are bodies smaller than planets that orbit the sun. Asteroids are composed of metals and rock, whereas comets also contain ice and dust.

Read science articles on the Kuiper Belt, including the latest news on Pluto, Eris, Sedna, Quaoar and other Kuiper Belt objects.

A conveyor belt at Rio Tinto’s Western Range mine in the Pilbara. The $2.4 billion Western Range mine that Rio Tinto officially opened in June is one such example.

Dwarf Planets Learn more about Pluto and other dwarf planets, which are defined as objects that orbit the Sun and are nearly round, but that have not been able to clear their orbit of debris. The ...