NASA’s New Horizons mission changed our understanding of the outer solar system. After its famous Pluto flyby, it traveled ...

Anomalous orbits of Kuiper Belt objects, studied since 2016 by Caltech’s Michael Brown, point to the gravitational pull of an unseen planetary body. Locating Planet X involves monitoring vast ...

Beautiful photos of the six planets aligned in the night sky have emerged online. Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Venus and ...

The search for water on the Moon has captivated scientists for decades. Beyond its implications for understanding planetary ...

In 2014, Chad Trujillo, a former postdoc of Brown’s, and his colleague Scott Shepherd published a study noting that 13 of the most distant objects in the Kuiper Belt shared a strange ... here’s some ...

Asteroids, comets and Kuiper belt are bodies smaller than planets that orbit the sun. Asteroids are composed of metals and rock, whereas comets also contain ice and dust. The Kuiper belt is a ...

Named after the icy Kuiper Belt extending from Neptune's orbit, the Project Kuiper constellation will work similarly to Starlink once all of the satellites arrive in low earth orbit. Although it ...

UK comms regulator Ofcom has granted an earth station network licence to Amazon Kuiper Services Europe SARL for its ‘Kuiper’ non-geostationary orbit (NGSO) satellite system. This decision means Kuiper ...

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 ...

NASA estimates there are billions of comets orbiting the Sun in the Kuiper Belt - a region of the solar system home to Pluto - and the more distant Oort Cloud.