One year ago, the New Horizons spacecraft approached a mysterious object, 486958 Arrokoth, orbiting in the Kuiper Belt, a collection of small objects that revolve around the Sun beyond Neptune. […]
Final Announcement for Icarus Special Issue on Kuiper Belt Science Discoveries about the Kuiper Belt and Trans-Neptunian Objects have been accelerating over the past two decades. In the last five […]
Icarus is sponsoring a special issue on results related to the exploration of the Pluto system, the Kuiper Belt, and Kuiper Belt Objects, particularly by New Horizons, groundbased techniques, and […]
An asteroid found in the Kuiper Belt after multiple observing campaigns, Kuiper belt object (120216) 2004 EW95 is confirmed to most likely be a C-type asteroid, potentially validating dynamical models […]
Sunday, 3:30 pm at DPS Provo, Battle Creek Room Interested DPS members please join us Sunday, October 15th, from 3:30-5:30 pm for a focused workshop on future missions to the […]
If you are interested in joining a community group to study and support future NASA missions to explore objects in the Kuiper Belt, including as one possibility a potential return to Pluto, […]
The centerpiece of the proposed New Horizons Kuiper Belt Extended Mission (NH-KEM) is the very close flyby of the 20-40 km wide KBO 2014 MU69 on 1 January 2019. NH-KEM […]
Tuesday November 10th, 12:20pm – 1:30pm, Annapolis 3 This lunchtime workshop will discuss needs and opportunities for Earth-based KBO observations to support the potential New Horizons extended mission to the […]
Peering out to the dim, outer reaches of our solar system, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered three Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) the agency’s New Horizons spacecraft could potentially visit […]