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

"The universe is filled with a range of three-body systems, including the closest stars to Earth, the Alpha Centauri star ...

Having spent months speeding through the outer edges of the Kuiper Belt, the New Horizons has learned a good deal about the belt of debris that thrives on the edges of our solar system ...

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

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

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

Can asteroids orbit each other in pairs of three, also called a three-body or triple system, like stars? This is what a ...

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

A satellite-based Internet service from Amazon. The name comes from the Kuiper belt, an icy region outside the orbit of Neptune that was named after planetary scientist Gerard Kuiper. Announced in ...

There's no problem, however, with what a team of researchers say is likely a stable trio of icy space rocks in the solar system's Kuiper Belt, found using data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope ...

Credit: NASA, ESA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI) NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered that a system of asteroids in the distant Kuiper Belt may be triplets, not twins as previously suspected.