R esearchers looking for objects in the Kuiper Belt – the donut-shaped region beyond the orbit of Neptune containing icy ...

Pounding icy objects on Mars could make it survivable for humans, says a new study. Scientist Leszek Czechowski of the Polish ...

One part of this plan would require increasing the planet’s atmospheric pressure, and one scientist suggests that capturing ...

The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.

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 ...

Almost 10 years ago, a NASA spacecraft was able to take several photos of Pluto, known for decades as a planet before it was ...

A Polish scientist has proposed a radical solution to terraform Mars by smashing icy asteroids from the Kuiper Belt into the ...

Kuiper Belt Objects are leftovers from the whirling gas ... huge spherical cocoon of icy debris surrounding the solar system beyond Pluto and extending as far as a light-year away.

Beyond the dwarf planets, there's a region called the Kuiper Belt which is a collection of billions of smaller, icy objects. The Kuiper Belt is one of the regions from which comets are sometimes ...

In 1846, Neptune, the fourth of the giant planets beyond the asteroid belt ... To honor and distinguish the largest members of the Kuiper Belt—objects such as Pluto and Eris—the International ...

One part of this plan would require increasing the planet’s atmospheric pressure, and one scientist suggests that capturing celestial objects ... the Kuiper Belt (which begins just beyond ...