NASA and ESA monitor asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a 1.2% chance of impacting Earth in 2032. Learn about Near-Earth Objects ...

NASA’s New Horizons mission changed our understanding of the outer solar system. After its famous Pluto flyby, it traveled ...

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

Lowell Observatory will be hosting the 2025 I Heart Pluto Festival from Feb. 13 to 17, celebrating the planet and its ...

Computer simulations in 2005 suggest that Charon could have formed as the result of a hypothetical violent collision, when a large Kuiper Belt object struck Pluto at a high speed, destroying itself ...

Some are narrow rings, as in the canonical picture of a ‘belt’ like our Solar System’s Edgeworth-Kuiper belt. But a larger number ... the belts’ vertical thickness – that unobservable objects as large ...

In addition, the objects in the rings would become smaller and smaller over time due to collisions. In the solar system, the Kuiper Belt is a ring-shaped structure consisting of various large ...

Then, a subsequent impact between Charon and a smaller Kuiper Belt object could have produced the debris that formed the system's four small moons: Nix, Styx, Kerberos and Hydra. Learn about the ...

On this date, Jan. 19, 2006, the first probe ever destined to visit Pluto, its moons and other Kuiper belt objects launched from Launch Complex 41 at what is now Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

"It's a pretty big question since a bunch of other large Kuiper Belt Objects also have large moons, so it seems like this is something that happens in the Kuiper Belt with some frequency ...

“And that has pretty big implications for the Kuiper Belt as a whole, because eight of the 10 largest Kuiper Belt objects are similar to Pluto and Charon.” For more on this research, see “Kiss and ...

Of all the mysteries that the massive James Webb Space Telescope has seen so far in the early universe, one of the strangest are objects that astronomers now call "little red dots." Like the ...