Researchers simulated how gravitational collapse forms two-lobed contact binaries in the Kuiper Belt without destructive ...

Far beyond Neptune, at the cold edge of our solar system, millions of icy objects drift quietly in a region called the Kuiper ...

Astronomers have puzzled for years over a strange pattern in the outer solar system. A surprising number of icy bodies far beyond Neptune resemble snowmen, made of two rounded lobes stuck together.

A computer visualization maps small bodies in the solar system that are expected to be observed by the Rubin Observatory during the 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time. Red indicates near-Earth ...