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Space Exploration

Long after historic flybys, NASA’s New Horizons is still pioneering science in the Kuiper Belt

The spacecraft made historic flybys of Pluto and the Kuiper Belt Object Ultima Thule, but there is still more to offer

Solar System

New Horizons Update: Astronomers are starting to understand Ultima Thule’s secrets

The Kuiper Belt object has been critically analysed since its flyby at the beginning of 2019, and astronomers are slowly understanding its nature

Astronomy

Heroes of Space: Gerard Kuiper

This determined astronomer changed our understanding of the Solar System

Astronomy

Heroes of Space: Clyde Tombaugh

The amateur astronomer who discovered Pluto and visited the dwarf planet after his death

Space Exploration

New Horizons has already spotted something peculiar about Ultima Thule

The lack of a light curve when examining Ultima Thule has already caused a mystery before the target’s flyby

Space Exploration

Could there be an orbiter at Pluto in the near future?

Scientists and engineers are seriously discussing the possibility of sending an orbiter to Pluto and beyond into the Kuiper Belt

Solar System

Ancient stellar flyby reshaped the outer Solar System

Researchers have theorised that a primordial stellar intruder not only stole material from our Solar System, but mixed up the orbits of Kuiper Belt objects

Solar System

Exiled asteroid found in the Kuiper Belt

Astronomers confirm the existence of the first carbon-rich lump of space rock in the outer reaches of the Solar System

Solar System

New Horizons Update: Spacecraft’s new target could be a ‘double Kuiper Belt Object’

The next flyby target for the NASA mission could actually be two targets

Solar System

Hubble spies moon around third largest dwarf planet

The pair reside in the frigid outskirts of our Solar System called the Kuiper Belt

News

Giant Jupiter-like world reveals clues on how planets evolve

Astrophysicists have got a rare peek at a baby planetary system 300 light years away

News

Hubble sees Comet Halley’s big brother being shredded by white dwarf

For the first time, a massive, comet-like object that has been seen being ripped apart and scattered in the atmosphere of a ‘dead star’

News

Astronomers investigate possibility of exotic life in Pluto’s oceans

The dwarf planet raises the question of whether some truly novel life forms could exist on such a frigid world

News

Astronomers provide more evidence for a ninth planet in the Solar System

The search for an unseen world far, far beyond Neptune’s orbit has become clearer

News

High-speed instrument to hunt for Kuiper Belt objects

Astronomers are busy tinkering with a high-tech instrument that could discover a variety of objects both far from Earth and closer to home

Space Exploration

Five things you didn’t know about NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft

Check out these five amazing facts about the Pluto-bound mission

Solar System

How big is a dwarf planet?

Measuring the size of these pint-sized worlds is more complicated than it seems…

Solar System

Does Planet X exist?

Could another planet exist in the Kuiper Belt? The jury is still out…

Solar System

What is the Oort cloud?

What is the is region of space at the edge of the Solar System?

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