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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the outer reaches of the Solar System, beyond the ice giant Neptune, lies a ring of comets and dwarf planets known as the Kuiper Belt. The closest of these objects are billions of kilometers away.

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 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 ...