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.

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 ...

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 ...

That means that the size of the smallest objects observable in the Kuiper Belt is about to plummet from 20 kilometers to about five kilometers. And while that may not seem like a massive ...

There may be a new population of Kuiper Belt objects at 70-90 au. “If this is confirmed, it would be a major discovery. The primordial solar nebula was much larger than previously thought, and this ...

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 ...

Primitive ices and gas from the earliest days of the solar system can remain trapped inside deep-space objects like comets and Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) for billions of years. That’s 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 ...

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 : ...

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 ...

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 ...