A vast ring of rocky leftovers between Mars and Jupiter, the asteroid belt preserves clues to how the planets — and Earth itself — were made.
The New Horizons spacecraft will conduct a close flyby of the Kuiper Belt Object (KBO) 2014 MU69 (MU69) on January 1, 2019, at a distance of 2,175 miles (3,500 km), achieving the most distant flyby in ...
Over the past few years, astronomers have reported large objects lurking in the Kuiper belt, a distant region of the solar system that seems to be a reservoir for comets. Some of the objects seemed to ...