Named after the icy Kuiper Belt extending from Neptune's orbit ... computer chips and other hardware needed for the project are developed. More than 1,000 engineers, programmers and support ...

Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast expanse of icy bodies that may hold clues to the solar system’s formation. These ...

They come from the Pluto probe New Horizons, which should have left the Kuiper Belt behind long ago. Nevertheless, it is still measuring far more dust particles in its surroundings than should ...

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.

Pluto contains more rock than ice, while Charon is 50% rock and ... group of objects that distantly orbit the sun called the Kuiper Belt, where thousands of icy remnants left over from the ...

The team behind this research thinks that two frigid worlds located in the Kuiper Belt ... which makes it much more similar to the Earth's moon than any other moon in the solar system." ...

As the gatekeepers to the Kuiper Belt, Charon and Pluto are a unique ... Because Pluto is so far from the sun — more than 3 billion miles (4.8 million km), on average — it appears as little ...

Hence the need for this more comprehensive survey ... of a 'belt' like our solar system's Edgeworth–Kuiper Belt, but a larger ...

This study used both to produce images that have provided more information on populations of exocomets than ever ... picture of a 'belt' like our solar system's Edgeworth-Kuiper belt.

(NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab/Southwest Research Institute) This large planet to moon ratio is sometimes referred to as a double-planet system rather than planet and moon ...

A once-in-a-lifetime comet is set to become visible for the first time in 160,000 years - and you don't want to miss it.