India conducted its first launch of the year late Tuesday, sending a new-generation navigation satellite towards geostationary orbit. A Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) Mk ...

NASA’s Juno mission found Io’s biggest volcanic eruption ever. The explosion was stronger than all Earth’s power plants ...

The term "perihelion" describes the point in an astronomical body's orbit where it is nearest ... that point is called perigee. Jupiter's moons and probes around the gas giant call their closest ...

that has a highly elliptical orbit with a perigee (distance from Earth) of approximately 200 kilometres and an apogee (that is distance from Earth) of around 36,000 kilometres. The GTO enables ...

15, 2025 — Hot Jupiters are giant planets initially known to orbit alone close ... 2024 — Around 4 billion years ago, an asteroid hit the Jupiter moon Ganymede. Now, a researcher realized ...

Nowadays, there are hundreds of satellites in the geostationary orbit, providing communications and broadcasting to millions of people around the globe. And the area of space they use is sometimes ...

Io is extremely close to the mammoth Jupiter Its elliptical orbit whips it around Jupiter once every 42.5 hours Jupiter's gravity leads to the moon being relentlessly squeezed Nasa's Juno spacecraft, ...

Himawari-8 and -9 are geostationary ... 8 and Himawari-9 orbit in close formation, both at around 140.7°E (in line with Japan, Papua and central Australia). This will offer the same view when ...

Thanks to the Moon’s orbit around ... seems Full for around three days. There are a wide variety of specialized names used to identify distinct types or timings of Full Moons.

It is compiled from hundreds of weather observations (synoptic data) taken simultaneously around the Australian region ... on hourly images from the Meteorological Satellite operating in geostationary ...