Visualization of the Sun-Earth Lagrange points. Orbital mechanics is a fun subject, as it involves a lot of seemingly empty space that’s nevertheless full of very real forces, all of which must be ...
The James Webb Space Telescope is not circling our planet the way most people imagine a satellite does. Instead, NASA parked ...
Launch of the Aditya-L1 solar observatory on a PSLV from Satish Dhawan Space Centre on Sept. 2, 2023. Credit: ISRO HELSINKI — India’s Aditya-L1 solar observatory has reached its destination orbit ...
NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory has reached its target orbit, marking a major milestone for ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has reached its final destination, almost a month after launch. Since lifting off from French Guiana on December 25, the telescope has unfurled its tennis court-size ...
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Research has shown that the Earth trails an asteroid barely a kilometer across in its orbit about the Sun – only the second such body to have ever been spotted. It goes around the Sun on average two ...
NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) has reached its destination of the first Sun-Earth Lagrange point ...