Trying to understand the makeup and evolution of the solar system's Kuiper belt has kept researchers busy since it was ...

Identifying asteroids on a potential collision course with Earth could be made easier thanks to an advancement in how to ...

It's an Earth sandwich! What if we placed our Earth between our Solar System's two asteroid belts: the Main Asteroid Belt and ...

Feb. 15, 2024 — A team found evidence for hydrothermal or metamorphic activity within the icy dwarf planets Eris and Makemake, located in the Kuiper Belt. Methane detected on their surfaces has ...

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Pluto and other large bodies in the Kuiper Belt are surprisingly rich in rock rather than ice. It may be because the early ...

Published in Nature Astronomy, the new images show two belts around Fomalhaut that could be analogous to the Asteroid Belt and Kuiper belts in our Solar System. Taking advantage of the stunning ...

Researchers have observed the first object of its kind - a carbon-rich asteroid in the Kuiper Belt. Orbiting in the collection of icy rubble beyond Neptune, the asteroid's composition strongly ...

Gaps in the asteroid belt, called Kirkwood gaps, correspond to orbital resonances with Jupiter. The total mass of the main belt is estimated to be 3-4% of the mass of the Moon. The Kuiper Belt is ...

Marsett says SPHERE can even image geological features on an asteroid’s surface ... may even have originated in the doughnut-shaped Kuiper Belt, a circumstellar region of icy bodies found ...

As well as naming the planets and their relative order from the sun, other components of the solar system are considered, including the asteroid belt, the dwarf planets, and beyond to the Kuiper ...