Key science: Stellar dynamics, N-body simulations, planetary orbital stability, and galactic gravitational potentials.
(Ianm35/iStock/Getty Images Plus) The Solar System is one of the comforting constants of human existence. No matter what else ...
NASA has finished building the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, and its single most ambitious exoplanet goal is to detect ...
Earth and Mars were formed from material that largely originated in the inner solar system; only a few percent of the building blocks of these two planets originated beyond Jupiter's orbit. A group of ...
Parallel N-body simulations form the computational backbone for modelling the dynamical evolution of astrophysical systems, from planetary rings and protoplanetary discs to galaxy clusters and ...
Scientists have discovered a bizarre planetary system where a rocky world orbits farther out than giant gas planets, defying long-standing theories of planet formation. The finding hints that some ...