Floating around at the edge of the Solar System are leftovers from its formation. This is the Kuiper Belt, which is composed of chunks of rock and ice like comets, dwarf planets, and random objects ...

Astronomers using a telescope «Hubble»discovered that one of the asteroid systems in the Kuiper belt may not be a double, but a triple. If this discovery is confirmed, it will be only the second ...

"The universe is filled with a range of three-body systems, including the closest stars to Earth, the Alpha Centauri star system, and we're finding that the Kuiper Belt may be no exception!

The Kuiper Belt is thought to stretch as far as 4.6 ... The researchers think these aren't outliers and there are more multi-asteroid systems out there in the outer reaches of the solar system ...

It is second in size only to asteroid Ceres, which is 580 miles ... EB173 is part of the Kuiper Belt, a ring of icy debris orbiting the sun, located out beyond Neptune. Astronomers believe ...

There's no problem, however, with what a team of researchers say is likely a stable trio of icy space rocks in the solar system's Kuiper Belt, found using data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope ...

Gonggong is a dwarf planet and a member of the scattered disc beyond Neptune. As of 2019, its distance from the Sun is 88 AU, and it is the sixth-farthest known Solar System object.