Using asteroseismology, an international research team has discovered a surprising alignment of the rotation axes of stars in open clusters, shedding light on the conditions in which stars are formed ...

Earth's axial precession is a gyroscopic wobble, analogous to a spinning top, causing its axis of rotation to trace a cone over time. The primary cause of Earth's precession is the gravitational ...

Scientists have just plotted changes in Earth's axis through laboratory measurements. To do this, they constructed the world's most stable ring laser. Previously, scientists were only able to track ...

Stars like the Sun support convective motions: hot plasma from the interior rises to the surface, cools, and sinks down again. This process generates pressure (or sound) waves that are trapped in the ...

The large-scale structure is shown in blue and quasars are marked in white with the rotation axes of their black holes indicated with a line. This picture is for illustration only and does not depict ...

The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has cracked the long-standing puzzle of why some asteroids spin smoothly while ...

(Nanowerk News) Using asteroseismology, an international research team including CEA, CNRS and the Université Grenoble-Alpes discovered a surprising alignment of the rotation axes of stars in open ...