This type of gravitational alignment is called orbital resonance, and it's like a harmony between distant planets. I'm an astronomer who studies and writes about cosmology. Researchers have ...

Uranus’ moon Miranda, once thought to be a lifeless, frozen ball of ice, could actually be hiding vast oceans of liquid water ...

In this map of overlapping orbital resonances, the regions between resonances are colored black and could allow for stable satellite orbits under optimal conditions. The light green curve connects ...

This exoplanet system has a nearly perfect what astronomers call ‘resonance,’ or in mathematically perfect orbits. "An orbital resonance is when two objects orbiting around something else have ...

At key locations in the Perseid stream, meteors may clump together thanks to gravitational nudges from what’s called a three-body orbital resonance. For one orbital period of the Perseid ...

Mr de Waal said: "As judges, we were determined to find a book that moved us, a book that had capaciousness and resonance, ...

Sometimes you encounter a book and cannot work out how this miraculous event has happened. As judges we were determined to ...

British author Samantha Harvey has won the 2024 Booker Prize award with her latest novel Orbital. The novel was announced as ...

It takes 90 minutes for the International Space Station to orbit the Earth. That journey happens 16 times in Orbital, which ...