Arrokoth, the farthest world ever visited by a spacecraft, was more than a distant “space snowman” snapped by NASA’s New Horizons — it revealed unexpected chemistry and structure that challenges ...

CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION — The United Launch Alliance launched its Atlas V rocket as it carried Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellites from Space Launch Complex-31 on Monday night. The Atlas V ...

The NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured the actively forming protostar EC 53 (circled ...

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Astronomers have spotted an intriguing cluster of objects in the Kuiper belt, the enormous, donut-shaped region of icy objects beyond the orbit of Neptune. This latest “inner kernel” was identified by ...

A vast region of our solar system, called the Kuiper belt, stretches from the orbit of Neptune out to 50 or so astronomical units (AU), where an AU is the distance between Earth and the sun. This ...

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The Kuiper belt, a disc of icy rocks on the outermost edges of the solar system, seems to have more structure than we thought. In 2011, researchers found a cluster of objects there on similar orbits ...

Amazon is rebranding its ambitious effort to expand global access to high-speed internet: Project Kuiper will now be known as Amazon Leo. The Seattle-based tech giant announced Thursday that it was ...

TAMPA, Fla. — Project Kuiper has shed its seven-year-old code name, emerging as Amazon Leo Nov. 13 as the company nears the start of initial broadband services from the low Earth orbit constellation ...

LONDON — The search for an unknown planet in our solar system has inspired astronomers for more than a century. Now, a recent study suggests a potential new candidate, which the paper's authors have ...