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 ...

In the outer reaches of the Solar System, beyond the ice giant Neptune, lies a ring of comets and dwarf planets known as the Kuiper Belt. The closest of these objects are billions of kilometers away.

486958 Arrokoth in the Kuiper Belt, previously called 2014 MU69 and nicknamed "Ultima Thule" was the farthest object in the solar system visited by a spacecraft when NASA's New Horizons conducted a ...

Kuiper is an outer region of the Solar System that extends from the orbit of the planet Neptune, called Edgeworth , about 30 ...

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 ...

A new study from BYU professor of physics and astronomy Darin Ragozzine and former undergraduate student Maia Nelsen provides new insight into the structure of objects in the Kuiper Belt. Using data ...

When New Horizons flew past Arrokoth in 2019, scientists expected a simple, battered object. What they saw instead was smooth ...

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 ...

You might think we know the solar system pretty well, but there's a lot more to our cosmic neighborhood than initially meets the eye (or telescope). Most of the good stuff, such as the planets, moons ...

A new study led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) Planetary Scientist and Associate Vice President Dr. Alan Stern posits that the large, approximately 5-kilometer-long mounds that dominate the ...

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 ...

The trans-Neptunian region, extending beyond Neptune, represents a primordial reservoir of icy and rocky bodies that have remained relatively unchanged since the Solar System’s formation. Central to ...