For the first time, astronomers have imaged dozens of belts around nearby stars where comets and tiny pebbles within them are ...

For decades, Pluto was celebrated as the ninth planet of our solar system. However, in 2006, the International Astronomical ...

Kuiper Belt, well past the orbit of Neptune (artistic illustration). There may be an undiscovered planet in the outer solar system whose presence is revealed by the strange orbit of objects beyond ...

Asteroids, comets and Kuiper belt are bodies smaller than planets that orbit the sun. Asteroids are composed of metals and rock, whereas comets also contain ice and dust. The Kuiper belt is a ...

Named after the icy Kuiper Belt extending from Neptune's orbit, the Project Kuiper constellation will work similarly to Starlink once all of the satellites arrive in low earth orbit. Although it ...

It's the most unlikely of places, too. Scientists have been focusing on the Kuiper Belt, which is found past the orbit of ...

The team behind this research thinks that two frigid worlds located in the Kuiper Belt, a ring of icy bodies located far from the sun at the edge of the solar system, collided together billions of ...

A satellite-based Internet service from Amazon. The name comes from the Kuiper belt, an icy region outside the orbit of Neptune that was named after planetary scientist Gerard Kuiper. Announced in ...

This process involves two icy bodies briefly merging and then separating, leaving Charon in a stable orbit around Pluto ... exist beyond Neptune in the Kuiper Belt. Researchers have noticed ...

"providing the first good evidence for phyllosilicates in a Kuiper Belt object." ESO/L. Calçada The asteroid's orbit (red) is highly eccentric, suggesting it has been disturbed One model of Solar ...

Pluto failed the third criterion. Unlike the eight recognized planets, Pluto shares its orbit with many other objects in the Kuiper Belt, meaning it has not "cleared its neighbourhood." ...