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

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

Some belts are narrow rings, similar to the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt, while others form broader disks. Many systems exhibit multiple rings or disks, and some show eccentricities that suggest the ...

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

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

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

Nov. 12, 2024 — A team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids and comets with new solar data sets to develop a revised solar composition that ...

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 ...

Some are narrow rings, as in the canonical picture of a 'belt' like our solar system's Edgeworth-Kuiper belt. But a larger number of them are wide, and probably better described as 'disks' rather ...

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.

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 ...

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. The puzzle of predicting how three gravitationally ...