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 New Horizons spacecraft, launched in 2006, is now 60 times farther from the sun than Earth. Zooming through the outer reaches of the solar system, A NASA spacecraft just clocked a distance 60 ...

You are probably pretty familiar with the name Subaru because of the cars it makes. But as with any Japanese word, there's more to it than meets the eye: it’s used to depict more than just the ...

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Survey observations using the Subaru Telescope’s ultra-widefield prime focus camera have revealed that there may be a population of small bodies further out in the Kuiper Belt waiting to be discovered ...

Can asteroids orbit each other in pairs of three, also called a three-body or triple system, like stars? This is what a recent study published in The Planetary Science Journal hopes to address as a ...

The farthest object ever explored is slowly revealing its secrets, as scientists piece together the puzzles of Ultima Thule — the Kuiper Belt object NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew past on New ...

Planet Y is the latest in a series of hypothetical solar system planets that scientists have proposed in recent years, all with slightly different characteristics, but collectively believed to be ...

Our solar system now, once again, officially consists of only eight planets. Although largely debunked, speculation continued ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In the not-too-distant past, the planet Pluto was thought to be an odd bird in the outer reaches of the solar system because it has a moon, Charon, that was formed much like Earth’s ...

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

Update: The United Launch Alliance has announced that the mission to deploy Amazon's Kuiper satellites has been delayed indefinitely after "an elevated purge temperature" was detected in the the ...