A team of astronomers has spent over a decade tracing meteorite impacts on Earth back to their original sources in the ...

The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.

Today NASA said that the Dawn spacecraft has fallen out of contact with Earth, presumably because it’s run out of the thruster… Read More The once-mysterious bright spots shining on the surface of the ...

Meanwhile, the diameter of the disk is estimated to reach up to 500 AU. For context, the distance from the sun to the end of ...

During Thursday’s press conference, Putin reiterated the conditions Moscow would require for any peace agreement. These ...

Floating around at the edge of the Solar System are leftovers from its formation. This is the Kuiper Belt, which is composed ...

Astronomers have discovered what they believed to be a rare stable trio of gravitationally bound Kuiper Belt objects, offering new clues to the enduring “3-body problem.” The discovery, made using ...

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 ...

This artist’s concept depicts one of the possible scenarios for the 148780 Altjira system in the solar system’s Kuiper Belt. It is likely a hierarchical triple formation, in which two very close ...

Credit: NASA, ESA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI). Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the Keck Observatory in Hawaii have found what may be a rare three-body system in the Kuiper Belt ...

"The universe is filled with a range of three-body systems, including the closest stars to Earth, the Alpha Centauri star system, and we're finding that the Kuiper Belt may be no exception!" ...