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 ...

Astronomers at Princeton University have uncovered evidence that the outer solar system is more structured than long believed ...

The newly identified cluster of Kuiper Belt objects lies about 4 billion miles from the Sun, offering fresh clues about how ...

Far beyond Neptune, astronomers have finally confirmed a compact clump of icy worlds hiding inside the Kuiper Belt, a feature ...

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 ...

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 ...

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The two stories (here) and (here) are set to be published in the Planetary Science Journal and detail evidence for a cluster of objects just outside of the Kuiper Belt, which is approximately 40 to 50 ...

"We have been calling Uranus an ice giant, but we don't really know its nature." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Astronomers say ...

New research suggests that a binary pair of Kuiper Belt objects, known as the Altjira system, is actually made up of three separate bodies orbiting one another in a complex triad. This rare orbital ...