Might the solar system harbor not just one, but two unknown planets? A fresh study of the Kuiper Belt’s structure has revived ...

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 the ...

The Kuiper Belt lies billions of kilometres beyond Neptune — a vast, frozen region filled with icy worlds, dwarf planets, and ...

NASA's New Horizons mission, which encountered Pluto in 2015 is now riding through the deepest depths of the Kuiper Belt, is encountering a cosmic dust storm that hints there may be more going on in ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has uncovered an intriguing development. Having spent months speeding through the outer edges of the Kuiper Belt, the New Horizons has learned a good deal about the belt ...

A newly discovered warp in the outer Solar System may have been created by a small, rocky world, much closer to the Sun than ...

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Image: This cutaway model shows a red “shelf” layer of a Kuiper Belt object peeking through the thin, darkened crust above so that the object appears red in telescopes. Credit: NASA/Conceptual Image ...

The University of Wyoming Harry C. Vaughan Planetarium will host several live talk programs and the final “Dome After Dark” ...

Those of you following NASA's New Horizons know the interplanetary space probe made the farthest-ever flyby in human history on New Year's Day, when it circled Ultima Thule, an object in Kuiper Belt.

An international team used the Hubble Space Telescope and the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope to analyze the chemical composition of Kuiper Belt Object 2004 EW95. Spectroscopic ...

The cold and shadowy fringe of the solar system known as the Kuiper belt is generating increasing debate among scientists as data accumulates on the growing population of objects discovered there. Now ...