A private lunar lander from Japan is now circling the moon, with just another month to go before it attempts a touchdown. Tokyo-based ispace said Wednesday morning its Resilience lander entered ...

However, these planets’ orbits are roughly on the same plane as the binary stars’ orbit around each other. Before the recent discovery, scientists had only theorized the existence of such a ...

Astronomers have discovered a planet that orbits at a 90-degree angle around a rare pair of strange stars—a real-life 'twist' on the fictional twin suns of Star Wars hero Luke Skywalker's home ...

ESO/M. Kornmesser Astronomers have discovered a strikingly unusual exoplanet: one which orbits its host stars in a totally new way. The planet 2M1510 (AB) b orbits two stars — like Luke ...

The mission is expected to last between three and five days, with the crew orbiting Earth multiple times from the north to the south pole at an altitude of around 450 km. Footage shared by Maltese ...

Although astronauts have not flown in polar orbits before, such orbits are common for satellites conducting Earth observation and mapping, weather data collection and environmental monitoring ...

Later in the month, NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore—who were stuck on the International Space Station (ISS) for nine months—finally returned home aboard a SpaceX Dragon capsule ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) NASA's Atmospheric Waves Experiment (AWE) aboard the ISS has released data from its first 3,000 orbits, offering unprecedented insights into atmospheric gravity ...

The Blue Ghost will make a soft landing on the moon on Sunday. Firefly Aerospace posted a video of the spacecraft making its second burn before getting into lunar orbit ahead of landing.

This may explain the strange properties of the orbits of our solar system's planets, which are not quite perfectly circular, and all lie on slightly different planes. NASA artist’s conception of ...

The first batch of Internet satellites for China's Guowang megaconstellation launched Monday on the country's heavy-lift Long March 5B rocket. The satellites are the first of up to 13,000 ...

Understanding the various types of orbits is essential for grasping how satellites and spacecraft manoeuvre around Earth and other celestial bodies. Each orbit type serves a specific purpose based ...