The orbits of a seven-planet system discovered in Kepler Space Telescope data has been sonified. Credit: Bishop’s University ...
Learn how to solve and verify Kepler’s Third Law for circular orbits. This video walks through the physics and mathematics connecting orbital period, radius, and gravitational force, showing how ...
Some 350 light-years away, the V1298 Tau system features an infant sun-like star, just 23 million years old, orbited by four ...
Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...
Data from the Kepler project has confirmed a new world that fulfills the telescope's goal of locating Earth-sized planets ...
In theory, a planet may be able to orbit a binary star system in a figure of eight, but it may not be particularly stable, ...
Scientists have discovered more than 6,000 planets beyond our solar system. What if some of them aren't planets at all, but ...
Since the Kepler Space Telescope began its prowl for exoplanets in 2009, it has uncovered a strange pattern among these alien ...
Discovered by volunteer scientists, this alien planet is out of synch with its siblings ...
Pandora, the latest in a long portfolio of University of Arizona's space science missions, has cleared its last major ...
Inside a century-old, four-storey building in Toronto’s Junction neighbourhood, a team of Canadian engineers is preparing to thrust the result of a decade’s endeavours into outer space. The brick ...
Starlink will lower the orbits of roughly 4,400 satellites this year as a safety measure, according to engineering VP, Michael Nicolls. In a post on X, Nicolls wrote that the company is "beginning a ...