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

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

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

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

Objects far beyond the Kuiper Belt Both observational instruments discovered objects located beyond the Kuiper Belt—at a ...

Early in our Solar System’s history, bits of icy debris were scattered and then gradually coaxed into a spiral alignment in ...

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

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

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

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

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

After 17 years of observation, researchers are certain that what they thought was a group of two celestial bodies is actually ...