The moon orbits Earth — right? The answer is actually a little more complicated than that. The moon is circling a point about 3,000 miles from our planet's center, just below its surface. Earth ...

So O'Donoghue made another animation, below, to count orbits (note the "number of orbits" ticker that appears to the right of the planets). Each time a planet crosses the screen, it's completing ...

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.

In other words, in the time it takes for the innermost planet to orbit its host star (dubbed TOI-178) 18 times, the next closest planet orbits nine times, the one inside that completes six orbits ...

An animation of the orbits of six exoplanets around the star HD110067. The orbits and planetary sizes are to scale relative to one another, although not relative to the size of the star.

A polar orbit is a trajectory where an object, such as a planet, revolves around another by passing over its poles. Unlike equatorial orbits, which follow the plane of the central object's equator, ...

Have you ever wondered why all the planets in our solar system orbit in the same plane? This fascinating characteristic of planetary orbits has intrigued astronomers for centuries. When we observe ...

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

In a 2009 paper in the journal Nature, Laskar and co-author Mickael Gastineau ran numerical models of some 2500 orbits using current knowledge of our solar system’s initial orbital parameters.

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 ...

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