"The universe is filled with a range of three-body systems, including the closest stars to Earth, the Alpha Centauri star ...

To get a better idea of what they were looking at, the researchers pointed the Webb telescope at two of the largest objects in the Kuiper Belt: Eris and Makemake. For decades, astronomers have ...

Feb. 15, 2024 — A team found evidence for hydrothermal or metamorphic activity within the icy dwarf planets Eris and Makemake, located in the Kuiper Belt. Methane detected on their surfaces has ...

Ceres is a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. It's the largest object in the asteroid belt and the closest dwarf planet to Earth.

The controversy endures over Pluto's true status, but the solar system underdog continues to capture hearts across the globe. Clyde Tombaugh didn't set out to discover Pluto when he sent his ...

The Kuiper Belt is a vast region beyond Neptune filled with icy remnants from the early solar system. Over 3,000 KBOs have ...

148780 Altjira is around 6 billion kilometers away from Earth and consists of three Kuiper Belt Objects (KBO), each around 200 kilometers in size. Altjira was discovered with the Hubble Space ...

SwRI scientists used data from the James Webb Space Telescope to model the subsurface geothermal processes that could explain how methane ended up on the surfaces of Eris and Makemake, two dwarf ...

This confirmed pioneering astronomer Gerard Kuiper's suspicions that ... the first object in the Kuiper Belt to be discovered. The subsequent discovery of Eris in 2005 sparked serious ...

Credit: NASA, ESA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI) NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered that a system of asteroids in the distant Kuiper Belt may be triplets, not twins as previously suspected.

Pluto fails the third criterion because its orbit overlaps with objects in the Kuiper Belt, a region of icy bodies ... along with bodies like Eris, Ceres and Pallas. "I don't want to cast ...