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 ...

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 ...

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

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