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, ...

After 17 years of observation, researchers are certain that what they thought was a group of two celestial bodies is actually ...

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 ...

NASA's New Horizons Pluto probe is gearing up to cross the "termination shock," an exotic boundary in the outer solar system, as early as 2027.

The only Kuiper Belt objects that have been explored in detail are Pluto and the smaller object Arrokoth, which NASA's New Horizons mission visited in 2015 and 2019, respectively. New Horizons ...

There are scads of other icy worlds residing in the Kuiper Belt, celestial leftovers from the formation of our solar system. For New Horizons, the gathering of more exploration science is ...

In 2022, the UK committed £615 million to ESA's core space science budget over a period of years, within an overall ...

and the Kuiper belt. New Horizons is in hibernation mode at the time of writing, having entered it in October last year. It’s slated to exit hibernation in April, when it will transmit back all ...