When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Alien planets that orbit close to their parent stars may be at high risk of the ultimate hot-cold ...

Mercury's spin and its orbit around the Sun are tied to each other in a unique arrangement. According to a set of calculations, random asteroid impacts may have aided the planet's evolution into the ...

This paper presents one analytical tidal theory for a viscoelastic multi-layered body with an arbitrary number of homogeneous layers. Starting with the static equilibrium figure, modified to include ...

Hi’iaka is the larger outer satellite of the dwarf planet Haumea. Using relative photometry from the Hubble Space Telescope and Magellan and a phase dispersion minimization analysis, we have ...

Earth's orbital period around the Sun is 365 days, while its rotational period is 24 hours. The Moon's orbital and rotational periods are both approximately 27.3 days, resulting in synchronous ...

Our Earth is well-suited for life because it is perfectly spit-roasted by our Sun thanks to our planet’s axial rotation — but other planets aren’t so lucky. A new study from Peking University reveals ...

Have you ever wondered why we only see one side of the moon when we look at it from Earth? We would expect to see the other side of the moon because it is a rotating sphere, but this is not the case.

Many exoplanets to be found by coming high-powered telescopes will probably be tidally locked -- with one side permanently facing their host star -- according to new research. Many exoplanets to be ...

In the early morning of April 10, the 100-meter-high main tower of the Longyan Bridge in Fujian, constructed by China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC), completed a counterclockwise ...