Planet 9: Inside the search for a hidden planet in our solar system
Nov 5, 2024 · An artist's concept illustrates the theorized Planet Nine, which Batygin and Brown believe to be five to seven times the mass of Earth. A competing theory proposes the existence of a hidden Kuiper ...
New Kuiper Belt objects lurk farther away than we ever thought
Oct 4, 2024 · New Kuiper Belt objects lurk farther away than we ever thought. Our Solar System's Kuiper Belt appears to be substantially larger than we thought. Back in 2017, NASA graphics indicated that...
NASA’s New Horizons Detects Dusty Hints of Extended Kuiper Belt
Feb 20, 2024 · New observations from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft hint that the Kuiper Belt – the vast, distant outer zone of our solar system populated by hundreds of thousands of icy, rocky planetary building blocks – might stretch much farther out than we thought.
Puzzling objects found far beyond Neptune hint at second Kuiper belt …
Oct 3, 2023 · Since 2021, astronomers have found hundreds of new objects in the Kuiper belt, a region beyond Neptune. Most sit within 30 and 50 astronomical units (AU, blue). But 12 lie past 60 AU (red)—suggesting NASA’s New Horizons mission could have more objects to explore.
The discovery of the Kuiper Belt revamped our view of the solar …
Aug 23, 2022 · The scientists had discovered the Kuiper Belt, a doughnut-shaped swath of frozen objects left over from the formation of the solar system. As researchers learn more about the Kuiper Belt, the...
Our solar system map may need an update — the Kuiper belt …
Feb 23, 2024 · The Kuiper Belt (or the Kuiper–Edgeworth Belt, named after astronomers Gerard Kuiper and Kenneth Edgeworth, who independently proposed its existence) is so far away, and its icy inhabitants are...
The Kuiper Belt - Science@NASA
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered the smallest object ever seen in visible light in the Kuiper Belt. Hubble observations of nearby stars show that a number of them have Kuiper Belt-like disks of icy debris encircling them. These disks are the remnants of planetary formation.
New Horizons Team Discusses Discoveries from the Kuiper Belt
Mar 15, 2023 · New observations from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft hint that the Kuiper Belt – the vast, distant outer zone of our solar system populated by hundreds of thousands of icy, rocky planetary building blocks – might stretch much farther out than we thought.
New Horizons Spacecraft Returns Its Sharpest Views of Ultima Thule
Feb 22, 2019 · The mission team called it a “stretch goal” – just before closest approach, precisely pointing the cameras on NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft to snap the sharpest possible pictures of the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule, its New Year’s flyby target and the farthest object ever explored.
New Horizons Team Adds AI Smarts to Its Kuiper Belt Object Search
Mar 6, 2023 · As New Horizons has crossed the Kuiper Belt, it has been taking advantage of its unique location and capabilities to study dozens of other KBOs in multiple ways that can’t be done from Earth. Key to this is discovering KBOs to study near the path of New Horizons.