Behind the planets in the solar system is the Kuiper Belt. An inventory of similar structures around other stars shows how unusual it is. A research team has used several telescopes to take images ...

Objects far beyond the Kuiper Belt Both observational instruments discovered objects located beyond the Kuiper Belt—at a ...

The Kuiper Belt anomalies have been a key focus of this ... Scheduled to become operational in May, this state-of-the-art facility is equipped with the largest digital camera ever constructed.

Nov. 12, 2024 — A team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids and comets with new solar data sets to develop a revised solar composition that ...

Because Charon is just over half the size of Pluto, the two bodies then began orbiting each other in a cosmic dance in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune’s orbit. However, a recent study in Nature ...

New theory explains Pluto’s moon Charon’s formation "Kiss-and-capture" collision occurred in Kuiper Belt Charon's formation could reshape moon theories ...

Abstract: The dynamics of the Kuiper Belt region between 33 and 63 au is investigated just taking into account the gravitational influence of Neptune. Indeed the aim is to analyse the information ...