Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast expanse of icy bodies that may hold clues to the solar system’s formation. These ...

Behind the planets in the solar system is the Kuiper Belt. An inventory of similar structures around other stars shows how unusual it is.

As the gatekeepers to the Kuiper Belt, Charon and Pluto are a unique double dwarf planet system. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

"We were definitely surprised by the 'kiss' part of kiss-and-capture. There hasn't really been a kind of impact before where the two bodies only temporarily merge before re-separating!" ...

This region, known as the Kuiper Belt, is home to a diverse array of icy bodies, including dwarf planets like Pluto, Haumea, and Makemake. Recent research has significantly advanced our ...

Eight of the 10 largest Kuiper Belt Objects have large moons like Charon ... Pluto would have raised the temperature of the the dwarf planet’s ice shell, which may have caused it to melt ...

Beautiful photos of the six planets aligned in the night sky have emerged online. Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Venus and ...

Pluto, considered the ninth planet in our solar system until it ... the two bodies then began orbiting each other in a cosmic dance in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune’s orbit.

we wish Pluto was still a planet, too) could snare a moon that is around half its size. The team behind this research thinks that two frigid worlds located in the Kuiper Belt, a ring of icy bodies ...

Pluto likely acquired large moon Charon in a “kiss and capture” collision billions of years ago. It may have created a subsurface ocean on the icy dwarf planet.