Hubble Telescope discovers a new ‘3-body problem’ puzzle among Kuiper Belt asteroids (video)

illustration of two asteroids in deep space, with a shiny silver space telescope as an inset in the lower left of the frame

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 would be just the second example of three gravitationally bound space rocks found in the Kuiper Belt, the doughnut-shaped region of icy … Read more