One hundred years ago today, Dutch-American astronomer Gerard P. Kuiper was born in Harenscarpel, The Netherlands. Just over one month from now, NASA plans to launch its first mission, New Horizons, ...

Amazon's next group of Kuiper satellites could soon reach orbit following a launch from Florida, propelling the company a little closer to providing internet service to customers. The batch of ...

The UA team imaged and mapped the lunar surface, which allowed them to understand the moon’s geology and for NASA to choose landing sites for future robotic and Apollo missions. Gerard Kuiper, the ...

A Sanjay Limaye, planetary scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Space Science and Engineering Center: The Kuiper belt, named after astronomer Gerard Kuiper, is a massive, icy region of our ...

On May 1, 1949, Neptune's moon Nereid was discovered by the Dutch astronomer Gerard Kuiper. This was the second of 14 moons discovered at Neptune. It was also the last one to be discovered with ...

Amazon is vying to compete with SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet service with the launch of Project Kuiper. Weather permitting, Amazon will launch 27 satellites into orbit Wednesday evening, the ...

Update: The United Launch Alliance has announced that the mission to deploy Amazon's Kuiper satellites has been delayed indefinitely after "an elevated purge temperature" was detected in the the ...

The Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society awards the 2006 Gerard P. Kuiper Prize for outstanding contributions to the field of planetary science to Dale P. Cruikshank, ...

The Kuiper belt, named after astronomer Gerard Kuiper, is a massive, icy region of our solar system that exists just beyond the planets. Actually shaped more like a doughnut than a flat belt, the ...