How does a planet’s size influence its orbit around its parent star? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences hopes to address as a team of ...
A newly identified brown dwarf sits in one of the most statistically hostile locations in astronomy — the region astronomers call the brown dwarf desert — with an orbit that is almost perfectly ...
The solar system is a dynamic place, and objects located 180° from a planet don’t stay that far from the planet for long. The reason is the differences in their orbits. Orbits come in all shapes and ...