Additionally, 80% of the largest objects in the Kuiper Belt have a large object rotating ... could have played a crucial role in shaping the features we see on Pluto's surface today." ...

“Because Pluto is rotating rapidly prior to the collision, and because Charon lies mostly outside of their corotation zone, it is able to ‘push’ Charon off, and Charon starts to slowly migrate out,” ...

Every once in a while, objects from the Kuiper Belt get perturbed by some random ... is one of those skeptics - concedes that some of the features of those distant orbits, including some of ...

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin could revolutionize the space industry with its New Glenn rocket. Here's how it stacks up against SpaceX's Falcon 9.

Trans-Neptunian objects are small bodies that orbit the Sun beyond Neptune, hanging out in regions like the Kuiper Belt and possibly much farther ... presents a direct connection between the spectral ...

Behind the planets in the solar system is the Kuiper Belt. An inventory of similar structures around other stars shows how unusual it is. A research team has used several telescopes to take images ...

These patterns were noticed in icy Kuiper Belt objects beyond Neptune. Scientists suggest these movements could indicate an unseen massive planet. The Kuiper Belt is a distant region of icy bodies.

The so-called 'planetesimal belts' are filled with tiny millimeter-sized particles created by collisions between comets.

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket sends two prototype satellites for Amazon’s Project Kuiper to orbit in 2023. The first operational Kuiper satellites are due for launch on a different ...