01 June 2018
Largest discovery of trans-Neptunian objects released
...divided into two subpopulations: the Kuiper belt and the scattered disc. While the Kuiper belt is a relatively well known ... astronomers think that it probably formed when objects in the Kuiper belt were ‘scattered’ by the gravity of Neptune or the ...
December 2014
Rosetta revelations: the fabric of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
... agree. But it still should be feasible to at least find precursor molecules of amino acids if they are there. Our Kuiper belt comet 67P/C-G seems to be a fantastic object to study. We were very much astonished to find already a very rich mix...
22 February 2016
Researchers constrain a possible location for Planet 9 using Cassini data
... a dwarf planet as big as Pluto and more recently another Kuiper Belt object known as (KBO) 2012 VP113 detected in the inner ...of the main planets of our solar system, not just Kuiper Belt objects to help constrain the most probable location of Planet...
17 June 2020
NASA wants to visit Neptune’s weird moon Triton
... said to NASA in our mission proposal, Triton isn't just a key to solar system science - it's a whole keyring: a captured Kuiper Belt object that evolved, a potential ocean world with active plumes, an energetic ionosphere and a young, unique surface...
22 June 2020
Icy Pluto may have started off hot with an early ocean
...; a finding that has implications for oceans on other large Kuiper belt objects. It is generally assumed that Pluto, the far-flung...say the team, their model provides answers to why some Kuiper Belt Objects (KBO) grow so big - a problem that ...
03 November 2017
Dust belt hints at more planets around our nearest star
...of interactions that resulted in the formation of a dust belt. Further study may also provide information that might point ... the Earth’s mass and is as cold as that of the Kuiper Belt in the outer Solar System; so around –230 degrees Celsius. The team...
