Designer Luke Twyman's solar system simulation doesn't have intricate graphics or a load of features to explore, but it can do what many others can't: sing. Called SolarBeat, it plays a music box ...

A new investigation into old Kepler data has revealed that a planetary system once thought to house zero planets actually has ...

Simulation suggests up to 24 Earth-mass worlds could share an orbit, just like two of Saturn's moons. Finding such an arrangement could point to advanced aliens.

According to the simulation, planetary orbits are indeed susceptible to perturbation from the companion star. As the researchers suspected, this can happen when a planet’s precession is resonant ...

Charon is large in size relative to Pluto, and is locked in a tight orbit with the dwarf planet. A new simulation suggests how it ended up there. By Jonathan O’Callaghan Some 4.5 billion years ...