kuiper belt
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Pluto’s Neighborhood May Extend Billions of Miles Farther Into Space Than We Thought
While journeying through the far reaches of the solar system, the New Horizons probe picked up a dusty trail of icy fragments that may indicate that the Kuiper Belt—home to former planet Pluto and countless other objects—is way bigger than we thought. New observations from the NASA mission suggest that the massive donut-shaped outer zone…
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Astrophysicists Suggest New Place Where Planet Nine Could Be Hiding
Five years ago, a couple of astronomers declared they had found evidence for another planet in our solar system, a so-called “Planet X.” Though now commonly referred to as Planet Nine, the cosmic object — much bigger than Earth and lurking somewhere in the solar system’s outer reaches — is still very much theoretical, though…
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We’re Finally Learning More About MU69, The Strange, Flat Rock In The Outer Solar System
New Horizons mission scientists have released the first peer-reviewed results from their study of 2014 MU69, demonstrating just how “pristine” this object is.
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Amateur Astronomy Equipment May Have Spotted Tiny Object Beyond Neptune
Japanese astronomers spotted evidence of tiny Kuiper Belt object at the outer edge of the Solar System using a pair of telescopes you could buy online, according to a new paper.