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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.

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 ...

486958 Arrokoth in the Kuiper Belt, previously called 2014 MU69 and nicknamed "Ultima Thule" was the farthest object in the solar system visited by a spacecraft when NASA's New Horizons conducted a ...

A rare observation opportunity revealed the presence of a thin atmosphere around a small object beyond Pluto.

Survey observations using the Subaru Telescope’s ultra-widefield prime focus camera have revealed that there may be a population of small bodies further out in the Kuiper Belt waiting to be discovered ...

A new study led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) Planetary Scientist and Associate Vice President Dr. Alan Stern posits that the large, approximately 5-kilometer-long mounds that dominate the ...

You are probably pretty familiar with the name Subaru because of the cars it makes. But as with any Japanese word, there's more to it than meets the eye: it’s used to depict more than just the ...

A vast region of our solar system, called the Kuiper belt, stretches from the orbit of Neptune out to 50 or so astronomical units (AU), where an AU is the distance between Earth and the sun. This ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered the smallest object ever seen in visible light in the Kuiper Belt, a vast ring of icy debris that is encircling the outer rim of the solar system just ...

On Wednesday, NASA’s Lucy mission got one step closer to investigating the enigmatic asteroids near Jupiter. This story, however, really began in another corner of the cosmos more than three decades ...