Astronomers have discovered what they believed to be a rare stable trio of gravitationally bound Kuiper Belt objects, ...

After 17 years of observation, researchers are certain that what they thought was a group of two celestial bodies is actually ...

A newly identified Kuiper Belt trio, possibly only the second of its kind, could provide strong evidence that these distant ...

The puzzle of predicting how three gravitationally bound bodies move in space has challenged mathematicians for centuries, ...

An artist’s impression of a Kuiper Belt object (KBO), located on the outer rim of our solar system at a staggering distance of 4 billion miles from the sun. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert!

The Kuiper Belt is a vast region beyond Neptune filled with icy remnants from the early solar system. Over 3,000 KBOs have ...

It's a new type of three-body problem for astronomers, who used the Hubble Space Telescope to determine that twin asteroids in the Kuiper Belt could be triplets.

Over the last 10 years, the Hubble Space Telescope has taken pictures of Altjira and a 2011 study found that it appears as ...

Scientists have discovered a potential three-body system in the Kuiper Belt, the Altjira system, challenging planet-formation theories.

The puzzle of predicting how three gravitationally bound bodies move in space has challenged mathematicians for centuries, ...

The discovery could also challenge our understanding of how Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs ... which visited the KBO Arrokoth, also known as 2014 MU69. | Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied ...

The largest KBO is the dwarf planet Pluto ... building up that evidence takes time and repeated observations. The only Kuiper Belt objects that have been explored in detail are Pluto and the ...