The Keck Observatory and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope may have uncovered a "potential three-body system in the Kuiper Belt," ...

Six known objects in the Kuiper Belt have elliptical orbits pointing ... to be the ninth planet in our solar system, but the new definition of a planet requires the celestial body to have enough ...

The Kuiper Belt (KB) is a region inhabited by small worlds of rock ... there are other objects of a similar size out there which do not, by the current definition, qualify as a planet. But that is not ...

The Kuiper Belt starts at 30 AU from the Sun and extends to about 50 AU. Some objects go even farther. Photo Credit: NASA NASA continues to study this icy region, revealing new secrets about our ...

A new study from BYU professor of physics and astronomy Darin Ragozzine and former undergraduate student Maia Nelsen provides new insight into the structure of objects in the Kuiper Belt. Using data ...

The name refers to the Kuiper Belt, a region of the solar system that ... effective for uses like video calls, gaming and high-definition streaming,” says Amazon. According to Business Research ...

Trying to understand the makeup and evolution of the solar system's Kuiper belt has kept researchers busy since it was hypothesized soon after the discovery of Pluto in 1930. In particular ...

It starts with the definition of a planet — or lack thereof ... it belonged to a region of the solar system later named the Kuiper Belt. This sparked debate about Pluto's status in the planetary ...

In the outer reaches of the Solar System, beyond the ice giant Neptune, lies a ring of comets and dwarf planets known as the Kuiper Belt. The closest of these objects are billions of kilometers away.

A brand-new group of frozen objects, orbiting the sun out beyond the distant Kuiper Belt, has been spotted by the Subaru telescope, working with NASA's New Horizons mission to find new targets for ...

But the real push for an official definition began in the 1990s, and gained steam in the early 2000s as a series of roughly Pluto-sized objects were discovered in the Kuiper belt, on the fringes ...