"The universe is filled with a range of three-body systems, including the closest stars to Earth, the Alpha Centauri star ...

Alpha Centauri is inching closer, sending space debris toward our solar system. Could it be a source of interstellar ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has given us this stunning view of the bright Alpha Centauri A (on the left) and Alpha Centauri B (on the right), shining like huge cosmic headlamps in the dark.

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

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

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

Alpha Centauri. The huge structure was created from one or more giant eruptions about 10,000 years ago, when our human ancestors were just beginning to farm. This Hubble image reveals the true ...

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 ...

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

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

The Alpha Centauri star system is approaching the sun. Two researchers have determined how many objects from there have already reached us and could reach us. At the edge of the solar system ...