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This Powerful Telescope Quickly Found 2,100 New Asteroids
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to find millions of unknown objects in our solar system, and perhaps even a ...
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The Kuiper Belt’s Oddities: Strange Objects That Baffle Scientists
The Kuiper Belt, a vast region beyond Neptune, has long been a source of intrigue for astronomers and space enthusiasts.
Triple System Of 'icy Space Rocks' May Have Been Found In Kuiper Belt For 2nd Time
The Keck Observatory and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope may have uncovered a "potential three-body system in the Kuiper Belt," ...
Scientists detect signs of a hidden planet in our solar system
Beyond the edge of Neptune, a distant realm of icy debris known as the Kuiper Belt stretches deep into space. This frozen ...
Potential discovery of new dwarf planet adds wrinkle to Planet Nine theory
Discovery of 2017OF201, a large trans-Neptune Object, challenges previous beliefs about the Kuiper Belt and hints at the ...
Astronomers Think They've Discovered a New Dwarf Planet in Our Solar System
A team of astronomers believe they may have discovered a new dwarf planet—just like Pluto—on the edge of our solar system. The object—which orbits out beyond Neptune—has been named "2017 OF201" by the ...
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A Scientist Has an Explosive Plan to Terraform Mars. It's So Wild That It Might Just Work.
One part of this plan would require increasing the planet’s atmospheric pressure, and one scientist suggests that capturing celestial objects from the Kuiper Belt—which are full of the ...