NASA's New Horizons spacecraft was launched in 2006, heading to Pluto before taking a close look at Arrokoth, a small object ...

The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.

An artist’s impression of a Kuiper Belt object (KBO), located on the outer rim of our solar system at a staggering distance of 4 billion miles from the sun. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert!

The discovery could also challenge our understanding of how Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) form. If it is confirmed as a triplet, the system — designated 148780 Altjira — could offer scientists a chance ...

Nov. 12, 2024 — 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 ...

New research suggests that a binary pair of Kuiper Belt objects, known as the Altjira system, is actually made up of three separate bodies orbiting one another in a complex triad. This rare ...

A new study from BYU professor of physics and astronomy Darin Ragozzine and former undergraduate student Maia Nelsen provides new insight into the structure of objects in the Kuiper Belt. Using data ...

Another idea is that the central body is oddly flat, like a pancake. Of the 40 identified binary objects in the Kuiper Belt, another system, Lempo, has been found to be a triple. The Altjira ...

Analyzing images from a nearby observatory, he and his team identified a number of new Kuiper Belt Objects. Brown found these bodies by scouring a massive number of images taken by a telescope at ...

It's well known that stars form by gravitational collapse of gas, commonly as pairs or triples, but the idea that cosmic objects like those in the Kuiper Belt form in a similar way is still under ...

It's well known that stars form by gravitational collapse of gas, commonly as pairs or triples, but that idea that cosmic objects like those in the Kuiper Belt form in a similar way is still under ...