Astronomy: Solar System: Kuiper Belt: Page 2

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center has joined a team led by the Southwest Research Institute to begin design studies for what could be the first spacecraft to visit PLuto and the Kuiper Belt.

Astronomers have discovered the largest object in the solar system since Pluto was named the ninth planet in 1930.

An unmanned Pluto-Kuiper Belt probe study. New Horizons, if approved, would launch in 2006.

On Monday, February 4, on what would have been the 96th birthday of Pluto's discoverer, Clyde W. Tombaugh, NASA's New Horizons Pluto-Kuiper Belt mission team announced the dedication of its Science Operations Center in his honor.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has measured Quaoar and found it to be 1300 km wide.

Scientists are finally preparing to send a spacecraft to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt, the last unexplored region of our planetary system. By S. Alan Stern

The Hubble Space Telescope is hot on the trail of a puzzling new class of solar system object that might be called a Pluto "mini-me."

This page lists acronyms and definitions of terms used in Kuiper belt research.

Primer on objects in the outer solar system from The Nine Planets multimedia tour of the solar system.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is hot on the trail of an intriguing new class of solar system objects -- dim and fleeting objects that travel in pairs in the frigid, mysterious outer realm of the solar system called the Kuiper Belt.