KOUROU, French Guiana – An Ariane 6 rocket roared off the pad at the Guiana Space Centre at 05:57 local time in late May 2026, carrying 32 Amazon Kuiper broadband satellites into low Earth orbit and ...

NASA’s New Horizons (NH) Pluto-Kuiper belt (PKB) mission was launched on 19 January 2006 on a Jupiter Gravity Assist (JGA) trajectory toward the Pluto system for a 14 July 2015 closest approach; ...

Unexpected find: A stellar occultation revealed gradual light dimming, suggesting a thin atmosphere around 2002 XV93, far smaller than known atmospheric worlds like Pluto. Theory challenged: Models ...