Researchers looking for objects in the Kuiper Belt – the donut-shaped region beyond the orbit of Neptune containing icy ...

A new study from researchers at the Southwest Research Institute has unearthed a fascinating discovery about Arrokoth, a trans-Neptunian object made famous by the New Horizons probe on New Year ...

The 11 objects discovered could be a new class of objects orbiting in a “ring” in the distant reaches of the solar system.

Snapshots from numerical simulation of shape evolution of Arrokoth's analogue due to sublimation driven mass loss. The bottom most shape is a digital terrain model derived from New Horizon ...

Survey observations using the Subaru Telescope's ultra-widefield prime focus camera have revealed that there may be a ...

The outer Solar System has been a treasure trove of discoveries in recent decades. Using ground-based telescopes, astronomers ...

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which was later named Arrokoth. The object is about four billion miles (6.4 billion kilometers) from Earth and the most distant object ever photographed. It will, if possible, study other KBOs ...

Named Arrokoth, the object is more than six billion km from the Sun in a region called the Kuiper belt. It is a pristine remnant of planet formation in action as the Solar System emerged 4.6 ...

Survey observations using the Subaru Telescope's ultra-widefield prime focus camera have revealed that there may be a ...

The Subaru Telescope is a large optical-infrared telescope located on Maunakea in Hawaiʻi and operated by the National ...

These are known as Kuiper Belt objects or KBOs, and astronomers have just found hints of an unexpected rise in their density, ...