Scientists are studying Saturn's moon Titan to assess its tidal dissipation rate, the energy lost as it orbits the ringed planet with its massive gravitational force. Understanding tidal dissipation ...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) scientists are studying Saturn's moon Titan to assess its tidal dissipation rate, the ...

Take advantage of a special 6-7 planet alignment from Earth's perspective. Planets 'line up' in the skies over California in ...

To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...

NASA officials said what Juno spotted was 'the most powerful volcanic event ever recorded on the most volcanic world in our ...

A celestial object may have altered Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune Simulations suggest it was up to eight times Jupiter’s mass The study proposes a close flyby reshaped planetary orbits ...

Neptune and Pluto for example are in a 2:3 resonance, meaning Pluto completes two orbits around the Sun for every three of Neptune’s. In our solar system, Jupiter’s moons Ganymede, Europa ...

Hot Jupiters are massive planets, similar in size to Jupiter, but they orbit their stars much closer than Mercury orbits the Sun. Since there isn’t enough gas and dust in these close regions for such ...

This is not a flat plane as the orbits of the planets are all tilted in their orbits. Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Venus and Saturn will align in the evening sky but not in a straight line.” ...

accelerated by the gravity of either Jupiter or the sun itself, said Bloomer. For comets, the period around the perihelion (during those orbits when they manage to dive deep toward the center of ...

The University press release added: “This planetary discovery adds a layer of complexity to the WASP-132 system as migration of a hot Jupiter planet towards its star through dynamical perturbation ...

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 ...