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

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

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

No telescope has basked in the night sky quite like the enormous new Vera Rubin Observatory. Here's what it could reveal ...

Amazon's next group of Kuiper satellites could soon launch from Florida, propelling the company closer to providing internet service to customers.

This, together with the star's relatively young age of 18.5 million years, makes the disk a young Kuiper belt analog and therefore an excellent place to search for water ice.

Asteroids are rocky worlds larger than a meter across, ranging up to Ceres’s 940-km diameter. Most orbit the Sun between Mars and Jupiter in the main asteroid belt, a relic zone of planetesimals ...

Some may be over 10 miles wide. Most small bodies in the Kuiper Belt form in pairs. Scientists used to think this happened through random collisions. But Altjira supports a different theory.

Eight of the 10 largest Kuiper Belt Objects have large moons like Charon, Denton said, which means that “kiss and capture” collisions may have occurred across the Kuiper Belt as the solar ...

A team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids and comets with new solar data sets to develop a revised solar composition that potentially reconciles ...

SAN ANTONIO — November 12, 2024 — A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids and comets with new solar ...

A competing theory proposes the existence of a hidden Kuiper Belt planet that’s smaller, with a mass between 1.5 and 3 times that of our world. Caltech/R. Hur ...