An analysis of two decades of data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided fresh insights into the complex atmospheric changes on Uranus that are largely driven by the effects of the sun's ...

The planet is 120 light-years away from Earth and is on a sideways axis orbiting two stars, which resembles the activity of a ...

Astronomers have found a planet that orbits at an angle of 90 degrees around a rare pair of peculiar stars. This is the first time we have strong evidence for one of these 'polar planets' orbiting a ...

New research suggests that Earth’s orbital variations—the slow changes in its tilt, axial precession, and shape of its ...

The idea of geosynchronous satellites is to find an orbit over the equator in which the satellite revolves around the earth at the same rate that the earth spins on its axis. In other words, find an ...

Professor Iain Stewart explains how the temperature of the earth is affected by its orbit round the sun, and the tilt of its axis. This was a theory put forward by James Croll. Professor Stewart ...