Pluto's largest moon, Charon, likely formed through a capture event in the early, crowded Kuiper Belt. Three-body encounters ...
New Horizons exposed Pluto as a surprisingly active world shaped by towering ice mountains, cryovolcanoes that erupt frozen mixtures instead of lava, and a possible hidden ocean sealed beneath a deep ...
A vast region of our solar system, called the Kuiper belt, stretches from the orbit of Neptune out to 50 or so astronomical ...
A newly discovered cluster of objects called the “inner kernel” of the Kuiper belt could teach us about the early history of ...
"Similar to the asteroid belt, the Kuiper Belt is a region of leftovers from the solar system's early history. Like the ...
This video examines the controversial “20 and Back” narrative, which claims that soldiers serve secret twenty-year tours in ...
On a chilly morning in February 1930, a young astronomer named Clyde Tombaugh was hunched over a blinking comparator at the ...