New discoveries of objects in the Kuiper Belt have also presented challenges for the Planet Nine theory. The latest is known ...

The Oort Cloud is a vast, icy shell that surrounds the solar system, marking the farthest reaches of our cosmic neighborhood. Though we have yet to directly observe its objects, the Oort Cloud is ...

Dwarf planets Haumea and Makemake are the latest additions to the Maine Solar System Model, billed as the largest solar ...

Ever since the International Astronomical Union recognized Haumea and Makemake as dwarf planets in 2008, University of Maine ...

Beyond the orbits of the eight planets in our Solar System, several distant objects make up the Kuiper Belt. The extent of this region has been estimated based on the discovery of such objects ...

Scientists believe that Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) are primitive and icy remnants from the early days of the solar system, about 4.5 billion years ago. They formed from leftover material after the ...

So, New Horizons would stop observing Kuiper Belt objects and its outer solar system experts would be dismissed from the team, leaving only the heliophysics staff.

(Web Desk) - Astronomers have discovered a new world circling the outer edges of our solar system. Researchers using the Subaru Telescope, located in Hawaii, spotted a small, distant object called ...

Launched in 2006, the probe was the first to get an up-close look at Pluto, a resident of the Kuiper Belt, and serves as astronomers' eyes at the edge of the solar system.

In a meeting today of the NASA New Horizons Science Team, a presentation strongly suggests that our solar system actually has a second Kuiper Belt. And the New Horizons spacecraft will be visiting ...

It is plausible that a primordial planetary body could survive in the distant Kuiper Belt as a Kuiper Belt planet, as many such bodies existed in the early solar system,” they wrote in their ...