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

It's a new type of three-body problem for astronomers, who used the Hubble Space Telescope to determine that twin asteroids ...

"The universe is filled with a range of three-body systems ... The Altjira system sits in the middle of the Kuiper Belt, at around 3.7 billion miles (6.0 billion km) from the sun, or about ...

This strange object near the solar system's edge may be a rare example of the 3-body problem in our own cosmic neighborhood.

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

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, and has most recently been popularized in the novel and television show '3 ...