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

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, and has most recently been popularized in the novel and television show "3 ...

The puzzle of predicting how three gravitationally bound bodies move in space has challenged mathematicians for centuries, and has most recently been popularized in the novel and television show "3 ...

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

There are scads of other icy worlds residing in the Kuiper Belt, celestial leftovers from the formation of our solar system. For New Horizons, the gathering of more exploration science is ...

That report also noted that "moving outward, the boundary of the solar system where the sun's influence ... seen the tip of the iceberg of the Kuiper Belt, which could be much more extended ...

The name refers to the Kuiper Belt, a region of the solar system that exists beyond the eight major planets. Project Kuiper competes with Elon Musk’s Starlink service, among others. SpaceX’s ...