If you need to remember your tiny place in the space-time continuum, it’s time to listen to SolarBeat, a flash animation that converts the orbital frequencies of our solar system into notes.

How do tidal forces shape a planet's orbital evolution, especially for those in the habitable zone? A recently submitted ...

Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, a team led by the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has identified a previously ...

In earlier work, Rice identified an unexpectedly large number of binary systems with orbits that are perfectly aligned, meaning that the two binary stars and their planets orbit on the same ...

A new study suggests that a close encounter with a massive interstellar object, possibly eight times the mass of Jupiter, may have significantly altered the orbits of the four outer planets in our ...

One of the brightest stars in the night sky seems to be orbited by a planet like Jupiter. The news is sure to cheer fans of ...

Habitable zones and planet formation When factoring in this super-Earth data, the team calculated that there should be around 0.35 super-Earth planets per star on wide Jupiter -like orbits.