"The universe is filled with a range of three-body systems, including the closest stars to Earth, the Alpha Centauri star system, and we're finding that the Kuiper Belt may be no exception!" ...

Floating around at the edge of the Solar System are leftovers from its formation. This is the Kuiper Belt, which is composed of chunks of rock and ice like comets, dwarf planets, and random objects ...

A new model that incorporates data gathered by the JWST could help scientists understand the composition and mass of objects in the distant Kuiper Belt and beyond.

Close to the sun, yet still beyond Neptune, circle what may well be their brethren, in a great disk called the Kuiper belt. Comets are leftovers, scraps of material that didn't make it to ...

This meant that the comet probably originated from the Oort Cloud rather than from the Kuiper Belt (see Comets 101). Secondly, and more importantly, Hyakutake passed VERY close to the Earth on ...

A team of astronomers has spent over a decade tracing meteorite impacts on Earth back to their original sources in the ...

Jeff Bezos' Project Kuiper said Wednesday it is planning to launch 27 satellites April 9 from Cape Canaveral Space Force ...

There's no problem, however, with what a team of researchers say is likely a stable trio of icy space rocks in the solar system's Kuiper Belt. The puzzle of predicting how three gravitationally ...

The Kuiper Belt is thought to stretch as far as 4.6 ... The researchers think these aren't outliers and there are more multi-asteroid systems out there in the outer reaches of the solar system ...