Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist's rendering of Kepler 16-b and its two suns. A rocket launch. Our nearest stellar neighbor. A Netflix show. All of these ...

The three-body problem is a physics conundrum that has boggled scientists since Isaac Newton's day. But what is it, why is it so hard to solve and is the sci-fi series of the same name really possible ...

The curved n-body problem extends classical Newtonian mechanics to spaces endowed with a constant non-zero curvature, thereby allowing the exploration of gravitational dynamics in non-Euclidean ...

Take a glance at our solar system and beyond, and outer space seems pretty orderly. Our eight planets travel around the Sun with apparent predictability and even the stars themselves appear to march ...

Carleton University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA. Carleton University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. I first encountered the three-body problem 60 years ...