Uranus sits far beyond the orbit of Saturn, yet its smallest moons are suddenly at the center of a quiet revolution in outer ...

When New Horizons flew past Arrokoth in 2019, scientists expected a simple, battered object. What they saw instead was smooth ...

A vast region of our solar system, called the Kuiper belt, stretches from the orbit of Neptune out to 50 or so astronomical units (AU), where an AU is the distance between Earth and the sun. This ...

Astronomers have spotted an intriguing cluster of objects in the Kuiper belt, the enormous, donut-shaped region of icy objects beyond the orbit of Neptune. This latest “inner kernel” was identified by ...

Scientists spotted primordial cluster beyond Neptune in the Kuiper Belt (Image: Canva) Astronomers may have found a primordial cluster beyond Neptune. The icy bodies lie in the Kuiper Belt’s distant ...

The 2026 recipient for the award was Joe Buck, whose father, Jack, won the Ford C. Frick Award in 1987. The other finalists ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

A new California law will use a "5-step test" to determine which children need booster seats while riding in a car.

CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION — SpaceX was able to launch two dozen of Amazon’s Kuiper satellites after multiple delays due to weather. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket left Cape Canaveral Space Force ...

Traces of comets and asteroids in distant solar systems: In young planetary systems, mutual collisions between asteroids or comets generate large amounts of dust, forming a "debris disk". The disk ...

Observations with the instrument SPHERE at ESO's Very Large Telescope have produced an unprecedented gallery of "debris disks" in exoplanetary systems. Gaël Chauvin (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy ...