"In the outer reaches of the solar system ... "If they formed in the early Kuiper belt, and survived this long, you could make a bunch of conclusions about how energetic or violent the evolution ...

Almost 10 years ago, a NASA spacecraft was able to take several photos of Pluto, known for decades as a planet before it was ...

One part of this plan would require increasing the planet’s atmospheric pressure, and one scientist suggests that capturing celestial objects from the Kuiper Belt—which are full of the ...

Dr Czechowski is convinced that the Oort Cloud, which lies deep beyond Neptune, holds billions of icy asteroids that can be ...

Distance distribution of Kuiper Belt Objects discovered by HSC on the Subaru Telescope. The horizontal axis represents the distance from the Sun to the objects, measured in astronomical units (au ...

The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.

However, their detection is enough to tell planetary scientists that the Kuiper Belt is more richly populated than current outer solar system population models suggest. The Vera Rubin Observatory ...

Amazon is vying to compete with SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet service with the launch of Project Kuiper. Weather permitting, Amazon will launch 27 satellites into orbit Wednesday evening ...