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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

W. M. Keck Observatory’s laser guide star adaptive optics (LGS AO) system uses a laser to create an artificial star to measure for atmospheric distortions. This results in sharp, high-resolution ...