Kuiper Belt

Voyager 1, Voyager 2, interstellar space, Solar System, Kuiper Belt, Oort Cloud, heliopause, Stamatios Krimigis, New Horizons, Pluto, plasma, solar magnetic field, galactic magnetic field, plasma wave subsystem, astronomical unit, electrons, electron density, cosmic radiation, Alpha Centauri, heliosphere,

First Results From Voyager 2, the Spacecraft at the Edge of Interstellar Space

Jatan Mehta 04/11/2019

The twin Voyagers' observations have given us our first...

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Don’t Let the Event Horizon Steal the Limelight, Save Some for the Ergosphere

Vasudevan Mukunth 22/04/2019

Many think the event horizon is a wondrous region...

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Missing Objects at the Fringe of the Solar System Are Puzzling Astronomers

David Rothery 07/03/2019

There's a mysterious lack of small bodies beyond Neptune,...

Guests congratulate New Horizons team members after they received signals from the New Horizons spacecraft that it is healthy and it collected data during the fly of Ultima Thule, at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, U.S., January 1, 2019. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls/Handout via REUTERS.

NASA Space Probe ‘Phones Home’ in Landmark Mission to Solar System’s Edge

Joey Roulette 02/01/2019

Launched in January 2006, NASA's New Horizons explorer embarked...

The size of Planet Nine, next to Earth and Neptune. PlanetUser/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Why Astronomers Are Arguing Over ‘Planet Nine’, Which They Haven’t Observed Yet

Sandhya Ramesh 26/06/2017

It seems what everyone has been wishing for all...

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New Dwarf Planet Found Far Beyond Pluto

Sandhya Ramesh 12/07/2016

The discovery of RR245 should not come as a...

An artist's depiction of the exoplanets around Kepler-223 in an 8:6:4:3 resonance. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Cosmic Dance: A Look Into Our Past By Looking At A Neighbour

Sandhya Ramesh 23/05/2016

A study of the older Kepler-223 system offers clues...