Within our solar system, because of its fast rotation and gaseous composition ... 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is a comet from the Kuiper Belt, a disc of debris surrounding the solar system.

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

Certain molecular structures absorb light at specific wavelengths, allowing scientists to determine their composition ... including comets and Kuiper Belt objects, contain these molecules in ...

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 ...

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

It's a new type of three-body problem for astronomers, who used the Hubble Space Telescope to determine that twin asteroids ...

There's no problem, however, with what a team of researchers say is likely a stable trio of icy space rocks in the solar system's Kuiper Belt, found using data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope ...

The puzzle of predicting how three gravitationally bound bodies move in space has challenged mathematicians for centuries, and has most recently been popularized in the novel and television show "3 ...

The run was cut short, but to Duane Kuiper and Mike Krukow, the voices of the game, there’s no shortage of pride when they recall the classic they helped create. “What it means is that we did ...