A rocket launch. Our nearest stellar neighbor. A Netflix show. All of these things have something in common: They must contend with the "three-body problem." But exactly what is this thorny physics ...

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Astronomers may have just identified a rare example of a "three-body problem" hiding in plain sight beyond the solar system's most distant planet. If the observation can be confirmed, it suggests that ...

What is mankind without science? The thought-provoking question is one of the themes in “3 Body Problem,” an eight-episode Netflix series from “Game of Thrones” creators D.B. Weiss and David Benioff ...

Editor’s Note: There will be some minor spoilers for the first volume of The Three-Body Problem comic below. Things in the comic adaptation set things up with Wang Miao as our protagonist in Beijing.

Netflix has been very weird about what’s going on with 3 Body Problem, its tremendously expensive sci-fi series based on the famed books. They recently said it was greenlit for “additional episodes” ...

Cixin Liu, the author of 'The Three-Body Problem', reflects on the unsettling rise of AI in creative fields, admitting that ...

New research suggests that a binary pair of Kuiper Belt objects, known as the Altjira system, is actually made up of three separate bodies orbiting one another in a complex triad. This rare orbital ...

The three-body problem is a physics conundrum that has boggled scientists since Isaac Newton's day. But what is it, why is it so hard to solve and is the sci-fi series of the same name really possible ...