Floating around at the edge of the Solar System are leftovers from its formation. This is the Kuiper Belt, which is composed of chunks of rock and ice like comets, dwarf planets, and random objects ...

Astronomers using a telescope «Hubble»discovered that one of the asteroid systems in the Kuiper belt may not be a double, but a triple. If this discovery is confirmed, it will be only the second ...

If so, the stable trio of icy space rocks would be just the second example of three gravitationally bound space rocks found ...

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 ...

A satellite-based Internet service from Amazon. The name comes from the Kuiper belt, an icy region outside the orbit of Neptune that was named after planetary scientist Gerard Kuiper. Announced in ...