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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Using the dual perspectives of Hubble and New Horizons, scientists have gained new insights into Uranus' atmospheric ...

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Astronomers have uncovered a surprising group of frozen bodies orbiting the Sun, far beyond the Kuiper Belt. Using the Subaru Telescope, in collaboration with NASA’s New Horizons mission ...

By applying a unique analysis method to images of Kuiper Belt ... The sun warms the Earth, making it habitable for people and animals. But that's not all it does, and it affects a much larger area ...