NASA Selects Potential Kuiper Belt Target for New Horizons
NASA scientists have selected the small Kuiper Belt object (KBO) known as 2014 MU69 as the next potential destination for the New Horizons mission. 2014…
Kuiper Belt
The Direct Imaging and Spectroscopy of a Young Extrasolar Kuiper Belt
Using the new spectrometer on the Gemini telescope to study a star slightly larger than the Sun, astronomers found that the debris ring is confined…
Astrophysicist Scott Kenyon Shares His Thoughts and Reactions on New Horizons’ Flyby of Pluto
As astrophysicists around the world watch to see what NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft will reveal about the Pluto, Scott Kenyon of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for…