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[[Image:Kuiper oort-en.jpgsvg|thumb|upright=1.3|left|Artist's rendering of the [[Kuiper Belt]] and [[Oort Cloud]].]]

{{Space colonization}}

[[Freeman Dyson]] has proposed that [[Trans-Neptunian Objects]], rather than [[planet]]s, are the major potential habitat of life in space. Several hundred billion to trillion [[comet]]-like ice-rich bodies exist outside the orbit of [[Neptune]], in the [[Kuiper Belt]] and Inner and Outer [[Oort Cloud]]. These may contain all the ingredients for life (water ice, ammonia, and carbon-rich compounds), including significant amounts of [[deuterium]] and [[helium-3]].