Kuiper Belt
New Horizons Sends Back First Science On Distant Kuiper Belt Object
With Pluto in its rear-view mirror, New Horizons is heading towards its next target, and sending back valuable science on…
Mysterious Pull On Cassini Probe May Help Find Planet Nine
Small perturbations in the orbit of the Cassini probe provide further evidence for the existence of Planet Nine.
New Horizons Snaps Amazing 3-D View of Pluto’s Mysterious ‘Bladed’ Terrain
It’s time to whip out your 3-D glasses to enjoy and scrutinize the remarkable detail of spectacular terrain revealed in…
Kuiper Belt Objects Point The Way To Planet 9
A new study from the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory has indicated that the extreme eccentricity of distant KBOs could point…
New Horizons Takes Closest Image Ever of a Kuiper Belt Object
The New Horizons spacecraft is already 209,437,000 km (130,138,000 miles) past Pluto (as of Dec. 4, 2015), making it 5,226,950,000…
Who was Gerard Kuiper?
In the outer reaches of the Solar System, beyond the orbit of Neptune, lies a region permeated by celestial objects…
Awesome Blue Skies and Red Surface Ice Found at Pluto – The Other Red Planet
Much to the amazement and delight of scientists, the latest findings about Pluto reveal it possesses hazy blue skies and…
Adventures With Starblinker
Observational astronomy is a study in patience. Since the introduction of the telescope over four centuries ago, steely-eyed observers have…
NASA and New Horizons team pick post-Pluto target … and serve up an awesome video
NASA and the science team behind the New Horizons mission to Pluto and beyond have settled on the popular choice…
NASA’s New Horizons Makes Major Discoveries: Young Ice Mountains on Pluto and Crispy Young Chasms on Charon
New close-up images of a region near Pluto’s equator reveal a giant surprise -- a range of youthful mountains rising…