Astrophysicists have once again enriched our knowledge of the cosmos with a new discovery: two small planets orbiting ...

Saturn was already the reigning champion in the moon department. Now, with 274, Saturn has more moons than all the other ...

In just over three years since its launch, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has generated significant and ...

Saturn leads the list of planets with the most moons since 2023. Now that a record discovery was published, it seems to be ...

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

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

Scientists have discovered a potential three-body system in the Kuiper Belt, the Altjira system, challenging planet-formation theories.

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

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

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 ...

Let’s get this out of the way—any scientist studying Uranus will tell you that they’re tired of the planet being the butt of ...