NASA’s New Horizons mission has uncovered a distant population of Kuiper Belt objects, suggesting the solar system’s edge may extend much farther than once believed. This revelation challenges ...

I find the outer reaches of our solar system fascinating. It’s a place that we know very little about considering how relatively close it is – even its size is up for debate. It’s littered with icy ...

Using computer simulations, scientists based at NASA have pieced together the story of how the dwarf planet Haumea, found in the Kuiper Belt of icy worlds beyond the orbit of outermost planet Neptune, ...

After a 10-year-old wrote to NASA begging for Pluto to be re-instated as a planet, Administrator Jared Isaacman appears to be ...

Ten observatories in six European countries teamed up for recent observations of a stellar occultation by the dwarf planet Haumea, which surprisingly show a narrow and dense ring orbiting the dwarf ...