Acombination of data from the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii and NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has uncovered a significant ...

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

Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) are celestial bodies located in the outer solar system, beyond the orbit of Neptune. This region, known as the Kuiper Belt, is home to a diverse array of icy bodies ...

"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!" ...

12, 2024 — A team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids and ... or metamorphic activity within the icy dwarf planets Eris and Makemake, located ...

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.

NASA launched the New Horizons probe which would provide never-before-seen images of the dwarf planet, its moons and other objects.

Beyond the dwarf planets, there's a region called the Kuiper Belt which is a collection of billions of smaller, icy objects. The Kuiper Belt is one of the regions from which comets are sometimes ...

As they separated and this icy kiss ended, the team thinks that ... "The first is looking at how this applies to the other large Kuiper Belt Objects with large moons, like Eris and Dysnomia ...

Pluto belongs to a group of objects that distantly orbit the sun called the Kuiper Belt, where thousands of icy remnants left over from the formation of the solar system linger. Eight of the 10 ...