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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On this date, Jan. 19, 2006, the first probe ever destined to visit Pluto, its moons and other Kuiper belt objects launched from Launch Complex 41 at what is now Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

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 ...

Officials today hope to inspire a new generation of art lovers. The artist Yuko Mohri in her studio space in Tokyo.Credit...Kentaro Takahashi for The New York Times Supported by By Zachary Small ...

The disbanding of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities came amid a flurry of executive orders touching on art, culture and history. By Jennifer Schuessler and Julia Halperin ...

Nasa’s New Horizons spacecraft passed Pluto in 2014 and is currently travelling through a distant region called the Kuiper Belt. One answer to these legal questions is that human laws ought to ...