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 ...

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 newly discovered warp in the outer Solar System may have been created by a small, rocky world, much closer to the Sun than ...

Our solar system now, once again, officially consists of only eight planets. Although largely debunked, speculation continued ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - A recent study introduces a potential new candidate, dubbed Planet Y, inferred from the tilted orbits of distant objects in the Kuiper Belt, a ring of icy bodies beyond Neptune, CNN ...

One hundred years ago today, Dutch-American astronomer Gerard P. Kuiper was born in Harenscarpel, The Netherlands. Just over one month from now, NASA plans to launch its first mission, New Horizons, ...

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 ...

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 ...

It was SpaceX's third Project Kuiper launch and the sixth overall dedicated to building out the nascent network, which will ...