How to Use Kuiper Belt in a Sentence

Kuiper Belt

noun
  • The scale of the outer belt is around twice that of our solar system's Kuiper Belt.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 9 May 2023
  • Astronomers have been searching the Kuiper Belt for a hidden planet for more than a decade.
    — Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Think of the Kuiper Belt as an outer reach of this protoplanetary disk that was frozen in time at that moment.
    — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Studies suggest that smaller Kuiper Belt objects could have formed in just a few hundred or thousand years.
    — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 23 June 2020
  • New Horizons is going in search of potential new Kuiper Belt objects to barnstorm.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 29 Apr. 2022
  • From the icy reaches of the Kuiper Belt to the mysterious depths of the asteroid belt, dwarf planets come in all shapes and sizes.
    — Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 18 Aug. 2025
  • The outer belt is around twice the size of the Kuiper Belt, which is a ring of icy objects, mostly frozen methane and ammonia, around the Sun.
    — Eden Villalovas, Washington Examiner, 8 May 2023
  • Eventually, the sun will also turn into a white dwarf, pulling in not only planets, but also icy Kuiper Belt objects.
    — Stefanie Waldek, Space.com, 23 Sep. 2025
  • In 2003, an object farther out in the Kuiper Belt than Pluto was discovered.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
  • Formed from the remnants of the birth of the Solar System, the Kuiper Belt is basically a band of frozen leftovers.
    — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 17 Jan. 2025
  • There are scads of other icy worlds residing in the Kuiper Belt, celestial leftovers from the formation of our solar system.
    — Leonard David, Space.com, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Experts suspect the star sports a ring of dust around its circumference, like the Solar System's icy Kuiper Belt.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 5 Mar. 2024
  • The finding offers fresh insight into our solar system's farthest, coldest objects in a region known as the Kuiper Belt.
    — CBS News, 4 May 2026
  • Our solar system is an example of the end state of this process, with just the asteroid belt, the Kuiper Belt and faint zodiacal dust remaining.
    — Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 5 Dec. 2025
  • As astronomers gear up for this major step change in our understanding of the Kuiper Belt, answers to some of our most fundamental questions hang in the balance.
    — Becky Ferreira, Wired News, 11 Feb. 2026
  • The New Horizons mission, which launched in 2006, is currently flying through the Kuiper Belt.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Infrared is also good for seeing through cosmic dust and gas, and for imaging cold things such as comets, Kuiper Belt objects, and perhaps planets orbiting other stars.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 7 July 2022
  • This device has a camera and a spectrograph, and observes a kind of light from distant galaxies, coalescing stars, comets and objects in the Kuiper Belt.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Jupiter-family comets, named for their gravitational ties to Jupiter, are icy relics of the Kuiper Belt, a region beyond Neptune.
    — Mark R. Weaver, Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2024
  • The Kuiper Belt, a region of the solar system past Neptune’s orbit, is likely home to hundreds of thousands — if not millions — of icy objects that vary in shape and size.
    — Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 23 May 2025
  • Most of the icy stuff was ejected; scientists think the icy bodies in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune today make up only a small portion of the original ejecta.
    — Nola Taylor Tillman, Space.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • So just like Pluto, Triton is geologically active and may be an ocean world, as well as being a fellow Kuiper Belt object.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 9 Apr. 2022
  • The results were compared with data from 54 Kuiper Belt bodies, also from James Webb observations.
    — Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 20 May 2026
  • More recently, two astronomers in Japan proposed that a different planet, instead of Planet 9, might be lurking in the Kuiper Belt.
    — Briley Lewis, Popular Science, 2 May 2024
  • Neptune's gravity is thought to have captured its largest moon, Triton, from the vast disk of the Kuiper Belt, which is home to countless small bodies, including a number of dwarf planets.
    — Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 20 May 2026
  • This capture wreaked havoc on the Neptune system and, until now, it's been thought that the planet's third-largest moon, Nereid, was also an object captured from the Kuiper Belt.
    — Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 20 May 2026
  • The team behind this research thinks that two frigid worlds located in the Kuiper Belt, a ring of icy bodies located far from the sun at the edge of the solar system, collided together billions of years ago.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 6 Jan. 2025
  • However, the area beyond the Kuiper Belt, where the object is located, had previously been thought to be essentially empty, but the team’s discovery suggests that this is not so.
    — Nick Butler, FOXNews.com, 31 May 2025
  • Once Rubin’s data comes in, astronomers should gain a much sharper picture of whether the Kuiper Belt’s tilt points to additional planets lurking far beyond Neptune.
    — Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Not all astronomers agree that New Horizons’ remaining Kuiper Belt investigations will be worthwhile, however.
    — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2023

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