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

"We thought they were basically all going to be fried because the entire universe turned into a vat of boiling oil." ...

Hubble doesn't just look at distant nebula and galaxies, but has also observed celestial bodies and events in our own solar ...

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

Scientists using the James Webb and Hubble space telescopes have confirmed one of the biggest head-scratchers in modern ...

A discovery made by a team led by researchers at the University of Michigan tugs at the seams of some key cosmic lessons we ...

A stunning Hubble image showcases a spiral galaxy seemingly intertwined with a nearby star—but looks can be deceiving! This ...

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

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

As it nears 35 consecutive years of space service, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken another look at a famous ...

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 ...