A newly discovered dwarf planet called 'Ammonite' (2023 KQ14) has been spotted in the outer solar system, and it could be ...

The Kuiper Belt, a vast region beyond Neptune, has long been a source of intrigue for astronomers and space enthusiasts. Known for its collection of icy bodies and dwarf planets, this distant area of ...

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

An icy object in perfect sync with Neptune reveals new details about planetary migration and unseen bodies far beyond the Kuiper Belt.

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

In 2006, NASA launched New Horizons to explore Pluto. In 2019, it visited the furthest object in the Solar System we have ...

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 ...

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.

The Kuiper Belt, which lies around Pluto, is a massive component of our solar system. It’s home to several small planets, including Makemake, Eros, and, of course, Pluto.

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.