India's Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft experienced an unexpected extension in its lunar orbit due to a gravitational interaction ...

The photo, taken during the X-37B’s seventh mission, shows Earth from High-Elliptical Orbit. On Feb. 20, 2025, the Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs uploaded on the DVIDS website, what is ...

P erihelion – or the Earth's closest approach to our host star – will take place on January 3, 2026. At this point, our ...

Every January, Earth reaches its closest point to the Sun, known as perihelion. Yet, it’s winter in the Northern Hemisphere.

There aren’t a ton of specifics about what the military’s X-37B has been up to in space, but we now know one thing for certain: The view is pretty good. On Thursday, Feb. 20, the Space Force released ...

With an elliptical orbit and a tilt off our axis of 23.5 degree we on Earth enjoy 4 seasons in the northern hemisphere.

Stig Nilsson a colonel in the Norwegian Ministry of Defence’s Department for Defence Policy and Long Term Planning, said Space Norway should have two highly elliptical satellites under construction by ...

Planetary scientists have proposed a solution to the centuries-old problem of why the Moon’s far side bulges at its equator. Ian Garrick-Bethell and colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of ...

CAPSTONE will test the stability of the orbit NASA plans to use for the lunar Gateway as well as test autonomous positioning technologies. Credit: Illustration by NASA/Daniel Rutter ORLANDO — A ...

The planets of our solar system move in ellipses. We've known this, so we are told, ever since Johannes Kepler devised his laws of planetary motion in the early 1600s. While it's true that orbits are ...

When you look at how the planets orbit in our Solar System, the correct answer was given hundreds of years ago: first by Kepler, whose laws of motion described it, and then by Newton, whose law of ...

Our planet’s elliptical orbit doesn’t affect winter or summer temperatures. But some astronomers wonder whether it’s a factor in why life survives. By Shannon Hall This story was updated to reflect ...