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

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 ...

With a sun more than 4.5 billion years old, our solar system is considered "middle-aged," and the pictures of what it might ...

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

Radio astronomers can study emissions from gas giant planets, blasts from the hearts of galaxies, or even precisely ticking ...

The Magellan Adaptive Optics Xtreme (MagAO-X) has provided some of the clearest images ever taken of planets forming around a ...

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 ...

The SPHEREx mission will map the entire sky in the infrared wavelength to better understand the history of the universe ...

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

For decades, scientists have studied small satellite galaxies to better understand how the universe’s smallest galaxies ...

Sujata Bajaj Is reinterpreting the cosmos In her new work 'Spacescapes'. She discusses her cosmic-inspired art and how it made her rethink her relationship with colour. Life + Culture.

NASA 's Hubble Space Telescope has trained on Andromeda for a deep dive into how its orbiting satellite galaxies formed and changed over time. What they found revealed a population of dwarf galaxies ...