Parker Solar Probe Makes History by Touching the Sun 8 million miles above the Sun's surface on December 24, 2024, traveling ...

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

A newly discovered cluster of objects called the “inner kernel” of the Kuiper belt could teach us about the early history of ...

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 ...

“Like most early Amazon projects, the program needed a code name, and the team began operating as “Project Kuiper”—inspired by the Kuiper Belt, a ring of asteroids in our outer solar system,” the ...

Amazon rebranded its Project Kuiper satellite communications offering to Amazon Leo, in what the company said is a simple nod to the low Earth orbit constellation that powers its network. In a ...

CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION — SpaceX was able to launch two dozen of Amazon’s Kuiper satellites after multiple delays due to weather. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket left Cape Canaveral Space Force ...

Far beyond Neptune, at the far outer rim of our Solar System, astronomers have spotted what looks like a hidden “structure” ...

Fomalhaut is one of the brightest stars in the night sky—and the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed belts of material orbiting the star in stunning detail. Three nested, dusty debris belts extend ...