The mystery of how planets and icy objects formed in the farthest reaches of our solar system just took an exciting turn. A team of researchers from NASA recently uncovered strong evidence for a rare ...

The Keck Observatory and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope may have uncovered a "potential three-body system in the Kuiper Belt," according to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Credit: NASA's Goddard ...

Fresh mapping of the outer solar system has revealed a previously unseen pattern in the Kuiper Belt, the icy ring of debris beyond Neptune that has long been treated as a relatively simple torus of ...

"Basically, we detected a water–ice reservoir." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. At long last, particles of water–ice have been ...

There may be a warp in the Kuiper Belt, possibly caused by “Planet Y” — a Mercury-to-Earth-sized world that orbits the sun way beyond the orbit of Neptune. Is there a mysterious “Planet Y” orbiting ...

The Very Large Telescope's SPHERE instrument captured unprecedented images of 51 dusty rings shaping young planetary systems.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sends Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellites into space. (SpaceX / Amazon via LinkedIn) In a case of strange space bedfellows, SpaceX launched 24 satellites for Amazon’s Project ...

An Atlas 5 lifts off June 23 carrying the second set of Project Kuiper satellites for Amazon. Credit: ULA WASHINGTON — An Atlas 5 launched a second group of satellites for Amazon’s Project Kuiper ...

October brings big space launches, from SpaceX Starship and Amazon’s Kuiper satellites to Blue Origin’s lunar lander and Mars probes. VCG via Getty Images With the first weeks of the fall season ...