“New Horizons shattered a major paradigm of planetary science,” says Alan Stern, the mission’s principal investigator. “Pluto turns out to have as much complexity as Mars or Earth, so much so that I ...

Things that come to mind as baseball’s automatic balls and strikes (ABS) system allows players to challenge certain ...

For all of this promise, Pluto struggles for respect, with the “dwarf planet” label continuing to rankle Pluto partisans ... but rather formed farther out, in the Kuiper Belt, a vast band of icy, ...

Today, the region they inhabit is known as the Kuiper Belt, and TNOs are often referred to as Kuiper ... Prominent features in each spectrum are highlighted and/or labeled with the name of the ...

"The universe is filled with a range of three-body systems, including the closest stars to Earth, the Alpha Centauri star ...

Over the last 10 years, the Hubble Space Telescope has taken pictures of Altjira and a 2011 study found that it appears as ...

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

"The universe is filled with a range of three-body systems, including the closest stars to Earth, the Alpha Centauri star system, and we're finding that the Kuiper Belt may be no exception!

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 ...