It started, as many cosmic enigmas do, with a dim dot of light on a Hubble Space Telescope photo the sort that professional ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: NASA, ESA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI) NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered that a ...

The New Horizons spacecraft, launched in 2006, is now 60 times farther from the sun than Earth. Credit: NASA / JHUAPL / SwRI illustration Zooming through the outer reaches of the solar system, A NASA ...