In the outer reaches of the Solar System, beyond the ice giant Neptune, lies a ring of comets and dwarf planets known as the ...

NASA's New Horizons mission team believed their spacecraft would have reached the outer edge of the solar system's so-called ...

The Tsuchinshan-ATLAS comet was created more than 4 billion years ago when the planets reshuffled and changed the ...

NASA/Eric Bordelon Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) passes over NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans in this ...

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 ...

NASA recommends using a pair of binoculars or a small telescope to see Comet A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS in San Antonio. In order to ...

Ars Technica has been separating the signal from the noise for over 25 years. With our unique combination of technical savvy ...

Other organizations, naturally, have access to it as well, and that's how we now ended up with news of a potential second Kuiper Belt being present in our solar system. The Kuiper Belt is a term ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A brand-new group of frozen objects, orbiting the sun out beyond the distant Kuiper Belt, has ...

New Horizons—the famous NASA spacecraft that flew by Pluto in 2015—is now making new discoveries beyond the Kuiper Belt. With help from the Subaru telescope in Hawaii, scientists have ...

A comet swings by Earth about once every 80,000 years was visible in the skies of Connecticut on Tuesday night.

A brand-new group of frozen objects, orbiting the sun out beyond the distant Kuiper Belt, has been spotted by the Subaru telescope, working with NASA's New Horizons mission to find new targets for the ...