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

In 2015, astrophysicists discovered a system consisting of two compact stars orbiting each other: a pulsar (i.e., a highly ...

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

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

This phenomenon known as a "planet parade," will feature Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune all ...

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

"Our Sun (Sol) is marked by a black hexagon, and its orbital path is indicated by a grey solid line (top row only). Alpha Centauri's location and path are shown by a yellow star and a solid blue line ...

Recently, a research team led by Professor Zhi-Guo Zhang from Beijing University of Chemical Technology, in collaboration with Professor Ye Long from Tianjin University has published a breakthrough ...

Can asteroids orbit each other in pairs of three, also called a three-body or triple system, like stars? This is what a ...