As a result of the International Astronomical Union’s 2006 demotion of Pluto from planet to dwarf planet, our solar system ...

There’s a new frozen oddball orbiting the Sun, and it’s not your average space rock. It’s a planet—a minor one, to be fair—but one of the largest yet discovered and with an orbit around the Sun that ...

The Kuiper Belt, a vast region beyond Neptune, has long been a source of intrigue for astronomers and space enthusiasts.

This discovery doesn’t just reveal the makeup of one strange object. It could change what we know about how the entire Kuiper Belt—and even the solar system—formed. Scientists believe that ...

Pluto, Eris, and Haumea are the celebrity residents, but hundreds of thousands of smaller objects lurk there too. Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) hold clues about planetary migration and the chemistry ...

Astronomers anticipate an unprecedented view of the solar system as the Rubin Observatory begins to scan millions of hidden ...

"It's very rare to discover an object both large and with an exotic ... Beyond Neptune is the Kuiper Belt; a ring of icy cometary nuclei and planetesimals dominated by Pluto and Charon.

Volk and Malhotra base their prediction on a comparison of the orbits of 800 objects in and beyond the classical Kuiper Belt — where Pluto and hundreds of thousands of comets and icy rocks lie ...

With 3.2 billion pixels and a decade-long search, the Rubin Observatory will reveal what’s been hiding in plain sight.

She did not say what that object is ... from Amazon’s Project Kuiper broadband program to low-Earth orbit. The name of the project comes from the Kuipe r Belt, an area of the solar system ...