Guide to KBOs and recent research by Dr. David Jewitt of the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy
Basic information on the Kuiper Belt from ORRERY: the solar system in action.
A description of the Deep Ecliptic Survey, a systematic search for Kuiper Belt Objects using large telescopes.
Lists currently known transneptunian objects, also known as Kuiper Belt Objects. Updated daily.
Recent and past issues of the Distant EKOs Newsletter, a review of the science and current events surrounding Kuiper Belt Objects
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 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.
The official home page of the Deep Ecliptic Survey, an initial reconaissance of the Kuiper Belt
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.
Astronomers have discovered the largest object in the solar system since Pluto was named the ninth planet in 1930.
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