By Sakshi Sah
Published Mar 20, 2025

Hindustan Times
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Surprising NASA facts about the Kuiper Belt

Kuiper Belt is a huge, icy region beyond Neptune, filled with frozen worlds and secrets of our solar system.

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Pluto and Arrokoth live in the Kuiper Belt.

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Scientists believe the Kuiper Belt holds millions of icy objects left from our solar system’s birth.

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Some call it the Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt, the Trans-Neptunian Region, or just the Kuiper Belt.

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It is one of the largest parts of our solar system, along with the Oort Cloud and Jupiter’s magnetosphere.

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Neptune’s gravity kept the Kuiper Belt’s objects from joining together into a single large planet.

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The Kuiper Belt starts at 30 AU from the Sun and extends to about 50 AU. Some objects go even farther.

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NASA continues to study this icy region, revealing new secrets about our solar system.

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