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A team of researchers spotted a close pair of trans-Neptunian objects The unusually close pair was also occulting a binary star system The discovery was made with the help of a citizen science project ...

At the end of 2023, astronomers made a startling discovery in the Orion Nebula. Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the team found 40 pairs of planetary mass objects — none of which orbit a ...

An image of 2014 MU69, aka Ultima Thule, taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft on approach shows the object is a "contact binary," two separate objects touching each other. Credit: NASA/Johns ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is hot on the trail of an intriguing new class of solar system object that might be called a Pluto "mini-me" -- dim and fleeting objects that travel in pairs in the ...

A new study authored by Southwest Research Institute scientists Rodrigo Leiva and Marc Buie reveals the binary nature of a trans-Neptunian object (TNO). Leiva and Buie utilized data obtained by the ...

A new study reveals the binary nature of a trans-Neptunian object (TNO). A new study authored by Southwest Research Institute scientists Rodrigo Leiva and Marc Buie reveals the binary nature of a ...