NASA’s New Horizons Detects Dusty Hints of Extended Kuiper Belt

New observations from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft hint that the Kuiper Belt – the vast, distant outer zone of our solar system populated by hundreds of thousands of icy, rocky planetary building blocks – might stretch much farther out than we thought. Speeding through the outer edges of the Kuiper Belt, almost 60 times farther […]
Posted on February 20, 2024
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