Emily Simpson has loved space since she was a 10-year-old kid celebrating her birthday at a planetarium. Now a recent Florida ...

BepiColombo passed a mere 295 kilometers above Mercury's surface at 6:59 CET on Jan. 9. The flyby began on the planet's ...

More objects are being launched into space than ever, and most are headed for low Earth orbit. This region of space has ...

Earth" and a massive outer planet, revealing insights into extreme planetary evolution. An international research team, led ...

In the coming days, we can observe one of the most spectacular astronomical events. Asteroid 887 Alinda, with a diameter of ...

Earth' 750 light-years away, with 8 Earth masses packed into 1.6x Earth’s size, orbiting its star in just 21 hours.

New models reveal Pluto and Charon may have spent some of their early history locked together in an embrace after a grazing ...

The displacement of the inner diameter of the tube with respect to its outer diameter (i.e., deviation from a common center). The permissible degree of eccentricity can be expressed by a plus and ...

This is also only true in our current epoch, as eccentricity of the Earth's orbit, the obliquity of the poles and precession of the equinoxes ... The footprint for the January 4th occultation of ...

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An eccentricity value of 0 is a circular orbit, while values between 0 and 1 describe an elliptical orbit. However, Perihelion does not lead to hot temperature in Northern Hemisphere despite our ...

The Falcon 9's upper stage successfully deployed the 21 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit. This was the 16th ... in the launch of Crew-6, BlueBird-1, USSF-124, mPOWER-B and 11 other ...