Japanese astronomers have proposed the existence of an Earth-like planet in the Kuiper Belt, a region beyond Neptune's orbit. The planet, i...

Washington, May 10 (IANS) Astronomers have discovered an unusual carbon-rich asteroid in the Kuiper Belt -- the first of its kind to be con...

That picture was part of a composite of 60 images looking back at the solar system, on February 14, 1990, when Voyager was 6.06 billion kil...

New York, Jan 7 (IANS) NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, which flew past Pluto in 2015, will encounter the most primitive and most distant ob...

On January 1, 2019, the New Horizons spacecraft will fly past a small, frozen world in the Kuiper Belt -- 1.6 billion km past Pluto and at ...

On January 1, 2019, the New Horizons spacecraft will fly past a small, frozen world in the Kuiper Belt -- 1.6 billion km past Pluto and at ...

Washington, Oct 16 (IANS) NASA believes a ninth planet does exist that might be 10 times the mass of Earth and 20 times farther from the Su...

Washington, Aug 5 (IANS) Even as NASA's New Horizons spacecraft gets ready for the most distant flyby in the history of space exploration, ...

Washington, July 15 (IANS) To mark the two-year anniversary of New Horizons' historic Pluto flyby, NASA has released new maps of Pluto and ...

New York, June 25 (IANS) Researchers, including one of Indian-origin, have found evidence of an unknown, Mars-sized "planetary mass object"...

Washington, April 4 (IANS) Continuing on its path through the outer regions of the solar system, NASAs New Horizons spacecraft has now trav...

Washington, Oct 28 (IANS) It took more than a year but the last bits of science data from New Horizons' Pluto flyby -- stored on the spacec...

This latest discovery is based on observations made with the Subaru Telescope in Hawai'i and Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory telesc...

Green noted that NASA relies on the scientific assessment by the Senior Review Panel in making its decision on which extended mission optio...

Space environment around Pluto and its moons is almost empty, containing only about six dust particles per cubic mile, according to data.

This remote Kuiper Belt object (KBO) known as 2014 MU69 was one of two identified as potential destinations and the one recommended to NASA.

An international team used the Gemini South telescope to capture images that show a ring-like disk of debris surrounding a Sun-like star.