Scientists leveraged a global camera network and doorbell cameras to track dozens of meteorites to their asteroid families.

Our solar system may have a ninth planet after all, following the declassification of Pluto nearly two decades ago, ...

Trying to understand the makeup and evolution of the solar system's Kuiper belt has kept researchers busy since it was hypothesized soon after the discovery of Pluto in 1930. In particular ...

If there is a black hole, it's at least 20 times farther from Earth than the furthest planet, Neptune, in a distant region of our solar system called the extended Kuiper Belt. The belt is home to ...

Lunar samples show evidence that solar wind could be behind ... New research suggests that a binary pair of Kuiper Belt objects, known as the Altjira system, is actually made up of three separate ...

There are also a few other hang-ups, as these Kuiper Belt bodies can become unstable during their journey toward the inner Solar System, and such a catastrophic impact on Mars could instigate ...

The Kuiper belt is a collection of such bodies that orbits at the edge of the solar system. An examination of nearly 8,000 impact observations indicates that the objects most likely to reach the ...

The Kuiper Belt is one of the regions from which comets are sometimes deflected in to the inner solar system. And then beyond that, there's a huge halo of icy objects called the Oort Cloud.