Earth, HD 20794 d, orbiting a nearby sun-like star, offering a promising lead in the search for life beyond our planet.

High in the skies of Earth ... lower [orbits] could enable a direct-to-cell constellation." The overall global market for VLEO satellite services could be vast. "We expect it to be around $ ...

Valves on the navigation satellite ... into an elliptical transfer orbit, with a low perigee, or closest point to Earth, and a high apogee, or furthest point from Earth, around the altitude ...

Two bands of radiation called the Van Allen belts encircle Earth. After a May 2024 solar superstorm, two more showed up between those belts.

China has managed to deliver a pair of satellites into lunar orbit despite the spacecraft initially being stranded in low ...

The risk of impact is likely to drop to zero as observations of Asteroid 2024 YR4 continue.

Viasat faces rising competition and balance sheet issues but could generate strong cash flows in the next few years. Click ...

It's responsible for the orbits of the planets and their satellites ... creating elliptical paths described by Kepler's laws of motion. Similarly, moons remain in orbit around their host planets ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has discovered a giant volcanic hot spot on the surface of Jupiter's hellish moon Io. The eruptions in ...

Derived from the Greek words peri (around) and helios (sun ... is because of the changes of the speed at which Earth orbits the sun due to the elliptical nature of its orbit." ...