Retrograde mean motion resonances occur when orbiting bodies, moving in directions opposite to the dominant sense of motion, experience periodic gravitational interactions that can stabilise their ...
What happens when a planet defies every expectation of how worlds are supposed to form and move? In the nu Octantis system, astronomers have confirmed the existence of a planet that orbits in the ...
A team led by Carnegie’s Scott S. Sheppard has found 20 new moons orbiting Saturn. This brings the ringed planet’s total number of moons to 82, surpassing Jupiter, which has 79. The discovery was ...
Winn, Joshua N., Howard, Andrew W., Johnson, John Asher, Marcy, Geoffrey W., Isaacson, Howard, Shporer, Avi, Bakos, Gáspár Á., Hartman, Joel D., Holman, Matthew J ...