: a band of small celestial bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune from which many short-period comets are believed to originate compare oort cloud
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New observations with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) show that the two moons, Nix and Hydra, are more similar to the interior of Charon than to other objects in the surrounding Kuiper Belt.
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Nola Taylor Tillman, Space.com, 1 Sep. 2025
These primitive bodies have been preserved in the cold outer reaches of the solar system—mainly in the Oort Cloud or Kuiper Belt—acting as time capsules containing some of the earliest material from the Sun's formation.
—Amanda Castro
hannah Parry
anna Commander, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Aug. 2025
Among the research projects to which the telescope in Arizona has contributed is a fifteen-year analysis of objects in the Kuiper Belt, a band of ice-rich asteroids in the distant solar system.
—Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
This region lies beyond the Kuiper Belt and may be located within the area considered to transition into the inner Oort Cloud.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 24 July 2025
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Nola Taylor Tillman, Space.com, 1 Sep. 2025
These primitive bodies have been preserved in the cold outer reaches of the solar system—mainly in the Oort Cloud or Kuiper Belt—acting as time capsules containing some of the earliest material from the Sun's formation.
—Amanda Castro
hannah Parry
anna Commander, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Aug. 2025
Among the research projects to which the telescope in Arizona has contributed is a fifteen-year analysis of objects in the Kuiper Belt, a band of ice-rich asteroids in the distant solar system.
—Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
This region lies beyond the Kuiper Belt and may be located within the area considered to transition into the inner Oort Cloud.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 24 July 2025
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“Kuiper Belt.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Kuiper%20Belt. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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