Prepare to look up and reconsider everything you thought you knew about these cosmic wanderers. Comet 3I/ATLAS has shattered ...

The interstellar object 3I/Atlas has left astronomers amazed after data revealed it follows the most stretched and unusual orbit ever measured ...

An illustration of Mimas’s ice shell evolution, in which the changes in ice shell thickness (y-axis) lag behind the eccentricity decay (inverted x-axis). Time increases to the right of the plot, while ...

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 discovered asteroid 2025 PN7, a tiny 'quasi-moon' that has been shadowing Earth in near-synchronised orbit for six decades and is expected to remain alongside our planet until around ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

Periodic variations in the Earth's climate are the result of changes in the Earth's orbit and axis of rotation. Several factors affect the total amount of sunlight received by the Earth and its ...

In an analysis of the past 1.2 million years, a geologist examining ocean sediment cores has discovered a pattern that connects the regular changes of Earth's orbital cycle to changes in the Earth's ...