Floating around at the edge of the Solar System are leftovers from its formation. This is the Kuiper Belt, which is composed ...

Astronomers have detected rare radio waves from a binary star system, challenging previous ideas about their origins. These ...

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 ...

This phenomenon known as a "planet parade," will feature Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune all present at the same time along a line in the night sky on Friday, NASA says.

Astrophysicists have once again enriched our knowledge of the cosmos with a new discovery: two small planets orbiting ...

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

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

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

And tantalizingly, what they found suggests that our solar system may already be flooded ... Two of the stars are Sun-like ones locked in a binary dance, while another star, a dim red dwarf ...