When New Horizons flew past Arrokoth in 2019, scientists expected a simple, battered object. What they saw instead was smooth ...
Uranus sits far beyond the orbit of Saturn, yet its smallest moons are suddenly at the center of a quiet revolution in outer ...
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 ...
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 ...
Amazon’s broadband-by-satellite service, Project Kuiper, started launching its satellites in April. But a study by Analysys Mason says that even though only 153 Kuipers have been launched (out of a ...
Amazon's low-Earth-orbit satellite network, Project Kuiper, may soon land in Taiwan, where competition among local telecom operators is intensifying. Reports suggest Far EasTone Telecom holds an early ...
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 dubbed ...