Far beyond Neptune, astronomers have finally confirmed a compact clump of icy worlds hiding inside the Kuiper Belt, a feature ...

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 ...

Astronomers at Princeton University have uncovered evidence that the outer solar system is more structured than long believed ...

The newly identified cluster of Kuiper Belt objects lies about 4 billion miles from the Sun, offering fresh clues about how ...

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 Keck Observatory and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope may have uncovered a "potential three-body system in the Kuiper Belt," ...

There may be a warp in the Kuiper Belt, possibly caused by “Planet Y” — a Mercury-to-Earth-sized world that orbits the sun way beyond the orbit of Neptune. Is there a mysterious “Planet Y” orbiting ...

The discovery of the Kuiper Belt fundamentally reshaped our understanding of the solar system's architecture and population, revealing a far larger and more complex system than previously imagined.

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 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 ...