Floating around at the edge of the Solar System are leftovers from its formation. This is the Kuiper Belt, which is composed ...

The Solar System continues to surprise us day after day and its presence in terms of dominance and expansion goes far beyond ...

New research suggests that a binary pair of Kuiper Belt objects, known as the Altjira system, is actually made up of three ...

Early in our Solar System’s history, bits of icy debris were scattered and then gradually coaxed into a spiral alignment in the Oort Cloud.

Could a giant planet between Mars and Jupiter have doomed Earth? A new study suggests that small changes would have been ...

A newly identified Kuiper Belt trio, possibly only the second of its kind, could provide strong evidence that these distant ...

The Kuiper Belt is a vast region beyond Neptune filled with icy remnants from the early solar system. Over 3,000 KBOs have been discovered so far, with scientists estimating hundreds of thousands more ...

The puzzle of predicting how three gravitationally bound bodies move in space has challenged mathematicians for centuries, and has most recently been popularized in the novel and television show "3 ...

using flybys of Jupiter and potentially visiting other planets and Kuiper belt objects in the outer solar system. Science goals include studying interplanetary dust, the interstellar medium ...

Ryugu, a 900-meter diameter asteroid in the Apollo belt, has recently proven useful in our search for signs of life's precursors elsewhere in our Solar System. A team of researchers has found ...