He details how we can use quirks of lunar gravity to use a mass driver to send passive ... such as a space station at the L5 point between Earth and the moon. This active tug could be reusable ...

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...

The small near-Earth asteroid 2024 PT5 has been creating a buzz among researchers. Discovered last year with the help of a ...

The gravity of Earth eventually hurled the smaller blob onward, becoming Earth's sole stable moon. But computer simulation ... Belt objects] have a large mass fraction satellite like Charon ...

It was Johann Kepler, almost exactly 400 years ago, who declared that each planet speeds up as it approaches the Sun in its ...

One major departure from Blue Origin's past New Shepard flights is the spin maneuver to create the effect of one-sixth Earth's gravity (simulating the gravity of the moon) during the NS-29 mission.

Blue Origin will launch the 29th mission of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle next week, on an uncrewed research flight that will simulate lunar gravity conditions. The mission, known as NS-29, is ...

Deimos, on the other hand, is spiraling away from Mars and could one day escape its gravity ... moon Deimos Moons are rare in the inner solar system. Neither Mercury nor Venus has a moon, and ...

Blue Origin will launch its first suborbital rocket launch of 2025 this week — and attempt a wild spin trick to mimic the moon's gravity during the flight — but if you want to see it live, you'll need ...