SYFY WIRE Explore The LatestMoviesTVGamesComicsInterviews All Posts Tagged Kuiper Belt A new tool in the hunt for the elusive, and possibly fictional, 'Planet Nine' If you're not careful, your moons might give you away. By Cassidy Ward | 1 month ago Dwarf planet Quaoar has a ring system that defies our understanding of gravity The ring is further away from the planet than gravity should allow. By Cassidy Ward | 1 month ago Almost 4.7 billion miles from the Sun, there is more on the horizon for the New Horizons mission By Elizabeth Rayne | 1 year ago Farfarout is now literally the most far-out object in the solar system By Elizabeth Rayne | 2 years ago How to build a Kuiper Belt Object: Arrokoth's two halves formed separately and slowly came together By Phil Plait | 3 years ago NASA officially gives Ultima Thule a fitting new Native American name By Jeff Spry | 3 years ago Where do the big moons of big Kuiper Belt Objects come from? By Phil Plait | 3 years ago Help astronomers name a Trans-Neptunian Object! (225088) 2007 OR10 just doesn't cut it By Phil Plait | 3 years ago Here it is: The most detailed full image of MU69 from New Horizons we'll ever see. By Phil Plait | 4 years ago New Horizons’ last glimpse of Ultima Thule reveals how this already weird object is even weirder By Elizabeth Rayne | 4 years ago Load More
A new tool in the hunt for the elusive, and possibly fictional, 'Planet Nine' If you're not careful, your moons might give you away. By Cassidy Ward | 1 month ago
Dwarf planet Quaoar has a ring system that defies our understanding of gravity The ring is further away from the planet than gravity should allow. By Cassidy Ward | 1 month ago
Almost 4.7 billion miles from the Sun, there is more on the horizon for the New Horizons mission By Elizabeth Rayne | 1 year ago
Farfarout is now literally the most far-out object in the solar system By Elizabeth Rayne | 2 years ago
How to build a Kuiper Belt Object: Arrokoth's two halves formed separately and slowly came together By Phil Plait | 3 years ago
Help astronomers name a Trans-Neptunian Object! (225088) 2007 OR10 just doesn't cut it By Phil Plait | 3 years ago
Here it is: The most detailed full image of MU69 from New Horizons we'll ever see. By Phil Plait | 4 years ago
New Horizons’ last glimpse of Ultima Thule reveals how this already weird object is even weirder By Elizabeth Rayne | 4 years ago