It’s been nearly 2 centuries since a planet was discovered in the solar system. But now scientists think they’ve uncovered ...

"The most exciting part of the HSC was the discovery of 11 objects at distances beyond the known Kuiper Belt," said Yoshida.

Scientists believe they have discovered evidence of a hidden planet existing beyond Neptune, which they have named 'Planet Y'. Recently, a study analyzing the orbits of Kuiper Belt objects indicated ...

This was an unexpected and coincidental discovery of a small, icy, egg-shaped planet in the outermost reaches of our solar ...

NASA's New Horizons mission, which encountered Pluto in 2015 is now riding through the deepest depths of the Kuiper Belt, is encountering a cosmic dust storm that hints there may be more going on in ...

Traditional theories suggest that Pluto's formation process is similar to that of other celestial bodies in the Kuiper Belt, ...

University of Virginia astronomy undergraduates focus on the shadows of asteroids and dwarf planets for their Earth-bound ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has uncovered an intriguing development. Having spent months ...

Hundreds of thousands of icy rocks lurk around in the Kuiper Belt, a place discovered just a few decades ago, and exists far beyond Neptune. As a NASA spacecraft sojourns deeper into space, it has ...

Researchers looking for objects in the Kuiper Belt – the donut-shaped region beyond the orbit of Neptune containing icy objects including dwarf planet Pluto – appear to have found 11 objects far ...

You are probably pretty familiar with the name Subaru because of the cars it makes. But as with any Japanese word, there's more to it than meets the eye: it’s used to depict more than just the ...