It's a new type of three-body problem for astronomers, who used the Hubble Space Telescope to determine that twin asteroids ...
Let’s get this out of the way—any scientist studying Uranus will tell you that they’re tired of the planet being the butt of ...
Scientists have discovered a potential three-body system in the Kuiper Belt, the Altjira system, challenging planet-formation ...
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 ...
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 ...
After 17 years of observation, researchers are certain that what they thought was a group of two celestial bodies is actually ...
Astronomers have discovered what they believed to be a rare stable trio of gravitationally bound Kuiper Belt objects, ...
The Kuiper Belt is a vast region beyond Neptune filled with icy remnants from the early solar system. Over 3,000 KBOs have ...
A new study by Rice University researchers Sho Shibata and Andre Izidoro presents a compelling new model for the formation of ...
The $488 million Spherex mission aims to explain how galaxies formed and evolved over billions of years, and how the universe ...