Astronomy

You might think that orbits are very stable; they work independently and do not change. However,…

The Solar System might look stable from the outside and will likely remain so for billions…

A protoplanetary disk is a disk of gas and dust surrounding a newly-formed star that appears…

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. While they form from the same materials…

Modeling an asteroid’s orbit is challenging. There is the chaotic nature of the n-body problem, in…

An orbital resonance is a configuration where the orbital periods of two objects are expressible as…

Asteroids are everywhere. They come in all shapes and sizes and orbit the Sun in various…

As you all know, Earth only has one moon, but many of you may wonder whether…

Do you know how minor planets are identified and named after they are discovered? Let’s learn…

Apart from the main asteroid belt and the Kuiper belt, do you know there is a…