According to study co-author Dr Fumi Yoshida, Neptune is the only known massive object near the outer Solar System that could ...

The Kuiper Belt, a vast region beyond Neptune, has long been a source of intrigue for astronomers and space enthusiasts.

The Keck Observatory and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope may have uncovered a "potential three-body system in the Kuiper Belt," ...

NASA launched New Horizons to explore Pluto. In 2019, it visited the furthest object in the Solar System we have seen up ...

Researchers use the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii to find a small object on the outer edge of the Solar System. Nicknamed ...

The Kuiper Belt is an elliptical plane in space spanning from 30 to 55 times Earth's distance from the sun, or 2.5 to 4.5 billion miles (4.5 to 7.4 billion kilometers).

The Kuiper Belt is home to Pluto and thousands of other worlds of varying size. Most of the bodies there are made from the building blocks of our solar system, long since cordoned to distant cold ...

Because Kuiper Belt objects are so extraordinarily far away, even our largest telescopes on Earth have trouble spotting the tiny, faint specks. New Horizons, however, will have a much closer view ...

In 2024, data from the New Horizons space probe and the Japanese Subaru Telescope in Hawaii, have discovered a number KBOs (kuiper belt objects) far beyond the expected outer edge of the Kuiper Belt.

As Kuiper Belt objects piled up, the importance of the hard-won discovery became apparent: The solar system was not the “boring” place many scientists had thought.