Astronomers Amazed to Identify ‘Cosmic Triplets’ Hiding in Plain Sight Beyond Neptune For decades, astronomers have mopped the outer reaches of our solar system, searching for clues about its ...

If there is a black hole, it's at least 20 times farther from Earth than the furthest planet, Neptune, in a distant region of our solar system called the extended Kuiper Belt. The belt is home to ...

"The universe is filled with a range of three-body systems, including the closest stars to Earth, the Alpha Centauri star system, and we're finding that the Kuiper Belt may be no exception!" ...

which originate in the Kuiper Belt, the doughnut-shaped region of icy bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. Related: Where does the solar system end? Unlike the supposedly water-rich ice giants ...

The Kuiper Belt is a region in space beyond the orbit of Neptune that's home to Pluto and most of the known dwarf planets, as well as some comets that are thought to be relics of the solar system ...

Known since 1992, KBOs are primitive icy remnants from the early solar system found beyond the orbit of Neptune ... of a collision in a busy Kuiper Belt, but instead form as a trio directly ...