Where Are the Planets With Two Suns? Einstein May Have the Answer

General relativity helps explain the lack of planets around tight binary stars by driving orbital resonances that eject or destroy close-in worlds. This process naturally creates a “desert” of ...
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How do spacecraft orbit Earth? Angular momentum explained by NASA

How is it possible for the ISS to stay in orbit? Learn more about the science behind orbiting Earth and more in this NASA "STEMonstrations" video. Credit: NASA Johnson Space Center ...
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Newest Member Of The Solar System Just Announced – And It’s In An Extreme Orbit

The Solar System has just gotten a new official member. Currently, with the name of 2017 OF, this is a trans-Neptunian object (TNO). This means that it orbits the Sun further away than Neptune.
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Jupiter's Birth May Explain Earth's Stable Orbit

How did Jupiter’s formation shape the solar system, and specifically Earth’s orbit? This is what a recent study published in Science Advances hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated the ...