Exploration of the outer solar system may be getting a boost from the Vera Rubin Observatory (VRO). When this gigantic ...

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The Kuiper Belt is a band on the outer edge of the Solar System made up of space’s odds and ends: comets, dwarf planets, and ...

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

New research suggests that a binary pair of Kuiper Belt objects, known as the Altjira system, is actually made up of three ...

Astrum explores everything NASA's New Horizons saw and discovered in the Kuiper Belt around Pluto, Charon and Arrokoth (Ultima Thule).

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

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

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 ...

This results in sharp, high-resolution images that allow astronomers to ... trio of icy space rocks in the solar system’s Kuiper Belt. If confirmed, the 148780 Altjira system would be the ...

Hubble images show two KBOs located about 4,700 miles (7,600 kilometers ... Currently, there are about 40 identified binary objects in the Kuiper Belt. Now, with two of these systems likely triples, ...