But take another look. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captured these images at a distance of 3.79 billion miles from Earth — the farthest from our planet an image has ever been made.

By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculated its position in the ...

New Horizons has been incredibly successful at exploring the outer solar system, providing the first detailed images of both the dwarf planet Pluto and a smaller Kuiper Belt object (KBO) called ...

Thirty years ago, astronomers found the Kuiper Belt, a region of space home to Pluto and other icy worlds that helped show how the solar system evolved.

The mission provided detailed images and data of the object, which is located approximately 4 billion miles from Earth in the Kuiper Belt, a region of icy bodies beyond Neptune.

Neptune’s gravity kept the Kuiper Belt’s objects from joining together into a single large planet. Photo Credit: NASA The Kuiper Belt starts at 30 AU from the Sun and extends to about 50 AU.

The Kuiper Belt showed higher levels of dust than models suggested. The dust is a symptom of its environment and could mean several things that the New Horizons team hopes to one day answer.

So far, about 40 binary systems have been identified in the Kuiper Belt. With two triple systems now strongly suspected, scientists believe there could be many more waiting to be discovered. A ...

That survey created one of the largest, deepest images of the sky ever taken. ... But the tiny Kuiper Belt objects that Webb will be able to see will be able to put the two models to the test.

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