Researchers used a pair of powerful supercomputers to simulate the potential trajectories of 1 million satellites in a ...

Could we prevent in-orbit crashes in the future by using advanced computer models?

Studying the orbits of thousands of exoplanets shows that large planets tend to have elliptical orbits, while smaller planets tend to have more circular orbits. This split coincides with several other ...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory creates a cislunar orbit map to help predict satellite stability and improve collision avoidance in increasingly crowded Earth orbits.

The coincidence of trends in abundance, metallicity and eccentricity points to two distinct pathways for forming small and large planets. "To see a transition in the eccentricities of the orbits at ...

Astronomers have observed a planetary system that challenges current planet formation theories, with a rocky planet that ...

On Feb. 20, 1962, Mercury-Atlas 6 mission launched, sending the Friendship 7 capsule containing John Glenn into orbit. Two ...

Far beyond the bright planets, in the dim outskirts of the Solar System, astronomers keep stumbling on objects that refuse to follow the rules. Around Neptune in particular, a handful of newly charted ...

Luke found life on Tatooine to be boring, but he should be glad, because as we have seen, binary stars have the potential to play all kinds of havoc on their orbiting circumbinary planets. When you ...