Astronomers may have just identified a rare example of a "three-body problem" hiding in plain sight beyond the solar system's ...

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The newly identified three-body system has a problem, and it’s not aliens—it’s that in about 20 million years, the stars are expected to merge and explode. Reading time 3 minutes If you’ve watched ...

When three massive objects meet in space, they influence each other through gravity in ways that evolve unpredictably. In a word: Chaos. That is the conventional understanding. Now, a researcher has ...