The Kuiper Belt is loosely defined as a doughnut-shaped swath of space beginning just beyond the orbit of Neptune and ...

"The most exciting part of the HSC was the discovery of 11 objects at distances beyond the known Kuiper Belt," said Yoshida.

This was an unexpected and coincidental discovery of a small, icy, egg-shaped planet in the outermost reaches of our solar ...

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 ...

The latest research reveals the detailed mechanism of material being pulled into a black hole beyond the event horizon.

University of Virginia astronomy undergraduates focus on the shadows of asteroids and dwarf planets for their Earth-bound ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has uncovered an intriguing development. Having spent months ...

Traditional views hold that Pluto formed in the cold Kuiper Belt, gradually accumulating ice and rock. Over the long ages, the decay of radioactive elements within the rocks released heat, gradually ...

Hundreds of thousands of icy rocks lurk around in the Kuiper Belt, a place discovered just a few decades ago, and exists far beyond Neptune. As a NASA spacecraft sojourns deeper into space, it has ...

Astronomer and Pluto mission leader S. Alan Stern explores how the field has transformed during his decades-long career.

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 ...