Far beyond Neptune, at the far outer rim of our Solar System, astronomers have spotted what looks like a hidden “structure” or “band” of small worlds.

The mystery of how planets and icy objects formed in the farthest reaches of our solar system just took an exciting turn. A team of researchers from NASA recently uncovered strong evidence for a rare ...

The Keck Observatory and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope may have uncovered a "potential three-body system in the Kuiper Belt," according to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Credit: NASA's Goddard ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An illustration of confirmed dwarf planets and their moons. From left to right: Pluto (with ...

It's an Earth sandwich! What if we placed our Earth between our Solar System's two asteroid belts: the Main Asteroid Belt and ...

"Basically, we detected a water–ice reservoir." At long last, particles of water–ice have been discovered in the frozen Kuiper Belt of another star. The discovery, made by the James Webb Space ...

The Very Large Telescope's SPHERE instrument captured unprecedented images of 51 dusty rings shaping young planetary systems.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sends Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellites into space. (SpaceX / Amazon via LinkedIn) In a case of strange space bedfellows, SpaceX launched 24 satellites for Amazon’s Project ...

An Atlas 5 lifts off June 23 carrying the second set of Project Kuiper satellites for Amazon. Credit: ULA WASHINGTON — An Atlas 5 launched a second group of satellites for Amazon’s Project Kuiper ...

Ricky Freeman, president of Project Kuiper's Kuiper Government Solutions division at Amazon, outlined the road ahead for the constellation Sept. 15 during World Space Business Week in Paris. Credit: ...