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, ...

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. If so, the stable trio of icy space rocks ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

NASA scientists have discovered Altjira system, a group of 3 space rocks in Kuiper Belt, providing evidence for the theory of ...

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.

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

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 ...