The mystery of how planets and icy objects formed in the farthest reaches of our solar system just took an exciting turn. A team of researchers from NASA recently uncovered strong evidence for a rare ...

Trying to understand the makeup and evolution of the solar system's Kuiper belt has kept researchers busy since it was hypothesized soon after the discovery of Pluto in 1930. In particular, binary ...

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Amazon has contracted with four launch companies to loft Kuiper satellites into orbit, including using United Launch Alliance's Vulcan rocket shown here. Sometime later this year, probably near the ...

Last month, Ofcom, the United Kingdom’s telecom regulator, granted Amazon’s Kuiper Systems a license to provide low-Earth orbit-based (LEO) broadband Internet in the country. The move places Kuiper ...

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.

So far, Amazon has only launched two prototype satellites for Project Kuiper. But the company plans on sending up the first production satellites for the internet system in the first half of the year.

Amazon.com Inc.’s Kuiper Systems LLC satellite division was granted permission to go ahead with its first launches, according to a ruling by the Federal Communications Commission today. The FCC’s ...

By Camillus Eboh ABUJA, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Nigeria has issued seven-year satellite permits to Amazon's Kuiper Systems, Israel ...