The final objects on this list are the most dangerous. But thankfully, they are among the least likely to be found. Similar massive rocks reside in the Kuiper Belt and beyond. However, unlike ...

The Subaru Telescope uses its wide-field camera to find many Kuiper Belt objects and then narrow down the list of objects that the spacecraft can fly by and observe. This collaboration between New ...

A brand-new group of frozen objects, orbiting the sun out beyond the distant Kuiper Belt, has been spotted by the Subaru telescope, working with NASA's New Horizons mission to find new targets for ...

There may be more than meets the eye with The Kuiper Belt, a ring comprising thousands of large, icy objects and dwarf planets that encircle our solar system. A yet-to-be-published study ...

Decades before Jewitt and Luu’s fateful discovery, the dwarf planet Pluto was technically the first-known Kuiper Belt object (though at the time, astronomers thought the pint-sized planet was a ...

In the outer reaches of the Solar System, beyond the ice giant Neptune, lies a ring of comets and dwarf planets known as the Kuiper Belt. The closest of these objects are billions of kilometers away.

Since then, New Horizons has ventured ever deeper into the Kuiper Belt of icy, ancient objects beyond the orbit of Neptune. So far from the Sun, these worlds represent pristine pieces of the ...

A team of astronomers believe they have detected objects moving far beyond the Kuiper belt, suggesting a possible second asteroid belt within our Solar System. The team has presented the findings ...

An artist’s concept of a collision between two objects in the Kuiper Belt. To give an idea of how far away New Horizons currently is, it has been almost nine years since the spacecraft visited ...

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 ...

The Properties and Origin of Kuiper Belt Object Arrokoth's Large Mounds. The Planetary Science Journal , 2023; 4 (9): 176 DOI: 10.3847/PSJ/acf317 Cite This Page : ...