Fresh mapping of the outer solar system has revealed a previously unseen pattern in the Kuiper Belt, the icy ring of debris beyond Neptune that has long been treated as a relatively simple torus of ...

Amazon is vying to compete with SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet service with the launch of Project Kuiper. Weather permitting, Amazon will launch 27 satellites into orbit Wednesday evening, the ...

A brand-new group of frozen objects, orbiting the sun out beyond the distant Kuiper Belt, has been spotted by the Subaru telescope, working with NASA's New Horizons mission to find new targets for the ...

The Kuiper belt, named after astronomer Gerard Kuiper, is a massive, icy region of our solar system that exists just beyond the planets. Actually shaped more like a doughnut than a flat belt, the ...

Update: The United Launch Alliance has announced that the mission to deploy Amazon's Kuiper satellites has been delayed indefinitely after "an elevated purge temperature" was detected in the the ...

Amazon's next group of Kuiper satellites could soon reach orbit following a launch from Florida, propelling the company a little closer to providing internet service to customers. The batch of ...

A vast region of our solar system, called the Kuiper belt, stretches from the orbit of Neptune out to 50 or so astronomical ...

A Sanjay Limaye, planetary scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Space Science and Engineering Center: The Kuiper belt, named after astronomer Gerard Kuiper, is a massive, icy region of our ...