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 ...

Astronomer used to think that the Kuiper Belt was a few hundred times larger than the Asteroid belt. They thought it was a donut shaped structure that started at Neptune and extended out 2 billion ...

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.

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ABUJA, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Nigeria has issued seven-year satellite permits to Amazon's Kuiper Systems, Israel's NSLComm's BeetleSat and Germany-based Satelio IoT Services, joining Elon Musk-owned ...