Researchers Nathan A. Kaib and Sean N. Raymond have evaluated how passing stars can affect the long-term stability of the ...

Earth has a nearly circular orbit, but some planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets, have very elliptical orbits. UCLA astrophysicists have now measured the shape of the orbits of ...

Tatooine is in a circumbinary orbit, which means that it doesn't orbit one star, but instead orbits both stars of a binary system. Binary systems are common in our Milky Way galaxy — about two ...

Researchers Nathan A. Kaib and Sean N. Raymond have evaluated the impact of passing stars on the long-term stability of the Solar System. What future awaits Earth? The authors of the article published ...