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

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 ...

15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System ... primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids ...

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 ...

Some are narrow rings, as in the canonical picture of a 'belt' like our solar system's Edgeworth-Kuiper belt. But a larger number of them are wide, and probably better described as 'disks' rather ...

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 ...

Some are narrow rings, as in the canonical picture of a 'belt' like our solar system's Edgeworth-Kuiper belt. But a larger number of them are wide, and probably better described as 'disks' rather than ...

NASA estimates there are billions of comets orbiting the Sun in the Kuiper Belt - a region of the solar system home to Pluto - and the more distant Oort Cloud. Dr Shyam Balaji, a researcher in ...

With hundreds of solar farm developments on the way swathes of Yorkshire countryside are set for a radical change. Did you know with a Digital subscription to Yorkshire Post, you can get access to ...

Some are narrow rings, as in the canonical picture of a ‘belt’ like our Solar System’s Edgeworth-Kuiper belt. But a larger number of them are wide, and probably better described as ‘disks ...

With a diameter of 1,212 kilometres (slightly more than half the diameter of Pluto), Charon is the 12th-largest natural satellite in the solar system. It is calculated ... when a large Kuiper Belt ...