A team of scientists led by expert Raúl Jiménez, ICREA researcher at the University of Barcelona's Institute of Cosmos ...

Have you ever wondered why all the planets in our solar system orbit in the same plane? This fascinating characteristic of planetary orbits has intrigued astronomers for centuries. When we observe the ...

But scientists now say that Uranus is actually warmed from the inside, according to a study published in Geophysical Research ...

But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

Even then, it had to do a total of six gravity assists past Mercury to match the planet’s orbital speed around the sun. The last assist was in January 2025, and it will enter Mercury orbit in ...

Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.

However, all is not lost. Their ultra-accurate simulations of the gravity field offer guidance toward a new mathematical foundation of gravity modelling. An upgraded simulator, which accounts for ...