A brand-new group of frozen objects, orbiting the sun out beyond the distant Kuiper Belt, has been spotted by the Subaru ...

A passing star may have kicked the weird moons of giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn into place, new research suggests.

According to the experts, the mysterious objects could be essential for a better understanding of the formation of the solar ...

Their work could change the way we view and study the elusive outer solar system. The Kuiper Belt is an icy, ring-shaped ...

A star’s flyby likely altered the orbits of trans-Neptunian objects beyond Neptune that changes how we view the solar ...

In the frigid realm beyond Neptune, the material available ... much closer together than the planets in our solar system. Some are Jupiter- or Neptune-size worlds that race on insanely hot orbits ...

Astronomers have uncovered a surprising group of frozen bodies orbiting the Sun, far beyond the Kuiper Belt. Using the Subaru ...

The Kuiper Belt (also called the Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt) is a disc-shaped region beyond the orbit ... new TNOs could revolutionize our theories about how the solar system formed,” said Lykawka.

Observations of the outer Solar System with the Subaru Telescope have discovered new bodies where none were expected. The new ...

and diminished if we went farther away. Now sup-: pose that retaining your consciousness, you could go: out, far beyond the confines of our solar system, to a point one thousand times as far ...