How Ancient Chinese Solar Eclipse Records Helped to Determine the Earth’s Rotation Rate
Post-eclipse blues? Today’s paper uses solar eclipse observations made thousands of years ago to track how Earth’s rotation rate has slowed over time.
Post-eclipse blues? Today’s paper uses solar eclipse observations made thousands of years ago to track how Earth’s rotation rate has slowed over time.
Way out beyond Neptune, a tiny moon dotes on a dwarf planet and slowly orbits around. But how much does the dwarf planet care? Quite a bit, it turns out.
We discovered Earth-like planets but are they the next destination for human life?
When moons and rings orbit together, the results can be crazy. This paper proposes three regimes to more easily understand these complex interactions.
The search for exoplanets in their habitable zones continues. But exomoons could be habitable, too! This paper models hypothetical exomoons in four real systems to determine the habitability of moons around planets that don’t necessarily stay in the habitable zone.