Anyone who’s binged 3 Body Problem on Netflix might recognize that the sci-fi series (based on a novel series by Cixin Liu) was inspired by an actual conundrum in space. Triple systems of ...

Predicting the movement of two celestial bodies is easy, but add a third, and chaos unfolds. The three-body problem remains one of physics' greatest challenges, shaping our understanding of space ...

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

Technical Terms Three-Body Problem: The challenge of predicting the motion of three celestial bodies interacting gravitationally, where no general closed-form solution exists.

This problem has now come up again after scientists—using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the W. M. Keck Observatory—observed that the Kuiper Belt system Altjira could be a triple system.

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.