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

We often discuss our future in the Asteroid Belt ... it is but a pale shadow of its larger twin, the Kuiper Belt, out at the edge of the solar system. Greenland’s leader says he’s ready ...

located in the Kuiper Belt. Methane detected on their surfaces has the tell-tale signs ... A New Ring System Discovered in Our Solar System Feb. 8, 2023 — Scientists have discovered a new ring ...

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 ...

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 ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

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 ...

Curtin University researchers have gained an unprecedented glimpse into the early history of our solar system through some of the most well-preserved asteroid samples ever collected, potentially ...

Two new studies show a briny, carbon-rich environment on the parent body of the Bennu asteroid was suitable for assembling ...

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to solar system dwarf planet Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.

As well as naming the planets and their relative order from the sun, other components of the solar system are considered, including the asteroid belt, the dwarf planets, and beyond to the Kuiper ...

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 ...