The shapes of atomic orbitals also affect the spectroscopic properties of atoms and molecules. The absorption and emission of ...

How does a planet’s size influence its orbit around its parent star? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences hopes to address as a team of ...

Researchers at the Institute for Molecular Science (IMS) have definitively resolved a two-decade-long controversy regarding ...

A planet-sized visitor possibly visited the solar system billions of years ago and permanently changed the cosmic neighbourhood by warping the orbital path of four outer planets of the system, a new ...

Cometary orbits exhibit a wide range of shapes and eccentricities, not all being highly elliptical. Comets originating from the Oort Cloud possess highly eccentric elliptical orbits, subject to ...

Astronomers have identified a tightly bound pair of stars that are spiraling toward a catastrophic merger, turning a distant stellar system into a natural laboratory for testing gravity at its most ...

DENVER — NASA is pressing forward on plans to build a Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway, an outpost for astronauts positioned in the space near Earth's moon. According to NASA, the Gateway will not only ...