This icy world, temporarily named 2017 OF201, could be a distant cousin of Pluto ... beyond the Kuiper Belt, where the object is located, has previously been thought of as fairly empty. NASA's New ...

The Pluto flyby was arguably one of 2015’s top ... This summer, they’re hoping to win an extended mission to explore another strange new world. 2014 MU69 is the official name of the icy ...

Nearly two years after its historic encounter with the dwarf planet Pluto, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft ... ancient object located about 1 billion miles beyond Pluto in the Kuiper Belt.

This distant world could potentially ... is currently journeying beyond the Kuiper Belt, the region where Pluto resides. However, even New Horizons has yet to reach the outermost reaches of ...

A newly detected planet beyond Pluto is not just expanding our understanding of the Solar System, it might be quietly rewriting it. Astronomers from the University of Taiwan recen ...

Serendipitously, I happened to be within arm’s reach of several New Horizons scientists ... to NASA for the cash. That world might not be as beloved as Pluto, but it will be a world as ...

The probe’s arrival at the dwarf planet nine years later was a stunning moment in space exploration, with New Horizons returning breathtaking images of a surprisingly complex world of craggy ...

The universe is a complete unknown to humans. We are not yet able to control and understand the system in which Earth is located, as evidenced by the possible discovery made by a g ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Our understanding of the solar system is a work in progress. Pluto ...

Cheng, together with graduate students from Princeton University, discovered the potential dwarf planet while searching for the elusive “Planet 9”, a hypothetical world believed to cause the unusual ...