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.

Colonizing the Kuiper Belt Posted: January 9, 2025 | Last updated: January 9, 2025 We often discuss our future in the Asteroid Belt, and the glorious civilizations we might one day build there ...

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 ...

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter Array, astronomers have discovered icy exocomet belts circling 74 different alien planetary systems.

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 ...

San Francisco, California, USA; San Francisco Giants manager Bob Melvin (6) before the gameagainst the Pittsburgh Pirates at ...

Venus, Jupiter, and Mars dominate the sky. Catch your last views of Saturn as early in the month, the Moon passes in front of ...

"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!" ...

The bodies maintain their structural integrity and eventually separate, likely preserving the ancient structures of both bodies, which initially formed in the Kuiper Belt. The interior structures ...

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.