Uranus sits far beyond the orbit of Saturn, yet its smallest moons are suddenly at the center of a quiet revolution in outer ...

When New Horizons flew past Arrokoth in 2019, scientists expected a simple, battered object. What they saw instead was smooth ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

A south Alabama teacher has been arrested after a video circulated online appearing to show her cursing and repeatedly hitting a child with a belt. According to the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office, ...

METROPOLIS, Ill. (WSIL) -- Metropolis police responded to a report of a disturbance in the 800 block of Parkview on November 23. Police said they learned Manuel Chest, 36 of Metropolis, was hitting an ...

Amazon Leo — the satellite internet service provider formerly known as Project Kuiper — says it has started shipping its top-of-the-line terminals to select customers for testing. Today’s announcement ...