Hubble has taken some spectacular images of many different galaxies, but it can't resolve more than a few blobs on Pluto's ...

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

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

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 ...

Before New Horizons, the best images of Pluto revealed nothing more than a few light and dark patches. The best Hubble Telescope images were only 150 pixels across. The new pictures show much more ...

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

“New Horizons shattered a major paradigm of planetary science,” says Alan Stern, the mission’s principal investigator. “Pluto turns out to have as much complexity as Mars or Earth, so much so that I ...

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

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered that a system of asteroids in the distant Kuiper Belt may be triplets, not twins as previously suspected. If so, the stable trio of icy space rocks ...