Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast expanse of icy bodies that may hold clues to the solar system’s formation. These ...

"Our Solar System’s Kuiper Belt long appeared to be very small in comparison with many other planetary systems," Fraser noted ...

Behind the planets in the solar system is the Kuiper Belt. An inventory of similar structures around other stars shows how unusual it is. A research team has used several telescopes to take images ...

She mapped our solar system's "alternate fate" had it housed an extra planet between Mars and Jupiter instead of the existing asteroid belt. They developed a 3D model that simulates how the solar ...

Kuiper Belt, well past the orbit of Neptune (artistic illustration). There may be an undiscovered planet in the outer solar system whose presence is revealed by the strange orbit of objects beyond ...

The authors suggest that Pluto and Charon, located in the Kuiper Belt at the edge of our solar system, collided without annihilating one another before being influenced by one another’s ...

Scientists are exploring the possibility of a hidden ninth planet in our solar system. The planet, dubbed Planet Nine, is believed to exist beyond Neptune in the Kuiper Belt. Researchers have ...

The Kuiper belt is a collection of such bodies that orbits at the edge of the solar system. Rocks and dust from the asteroid Bennu contain some of the molecular building blocks of life on Earth ...