The Kuiper Belt, a vast region beyond Neptune, has long been a source of intrigue for astronomers and space enthusiasts. Known for its collection of icy bodies and dwarf planets, this distant area of ...

The Keck Observatory and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope may have uncovered a "potential three-body system in the Kuiper Belt," ...

In 2006, NASA launched New Horizons to explore Pluto. In 2019, it visited the furthest object in the Solar System we have ...

There appears to be a gap between 55 AU and 70 AU where no objects have yet been found, and then a second belt — let's call it "Kuiper Belt 2" — between 70 and 90 AU, which is as far out as 13 ...

The Kuiper Belt is thought to stretch as far as 4.6 billion miles (7.4 billion km) from the sun, which is around 50 times the distance between Earth and our star.

The Kuiper Belt, which lies around Pluto, is a massive component of our solar system. It’s home to several small planets, including Makemake, Eros, and, of course, Pluto.

The orbits of many periodic comets are sculpted by the effects of the larger planets. Jupiter has a group, as does Saturn, Neptune and Uranus also to a ...

Amazon’s race to challenge SpaceX in orbit is getting a helping hand from its chief competitor: SpaceX, which will launch the ...

The Kuiper Belt object named "486958 Arrokoth," or simply "Arrokoth," may have more in common with a snowman than just its shape. New research suggests there's ancient ice locked within its frosty ...

Deep into the Kuiper Belt, New Horizons is still doing science Designed to study Pluto, the spacecraft’s instruments are being repurposed. Diane Hope – Dec 12, 2023 7:27 am ...

Project Kuiper is a subsidiary of Amazon, the online commerce behemoth that billionaire Jeff Bezos founded in 1994. The venture is meant to challenge Starlink, an internet satellite constellation ...

Project Kuiper will provide broadband internet service using a constellation of low Earth orbit satellites. Here’s everything you need to know about Amazon’s Starlink competitor.