"BepiColombo's main mission phase may only start two years from now, but all six of its flybys of Mercury have given us invaluable new information about the little-explored planet." ...
The higher the eccentricity, the more elliptical the orbit.Credit...Terry Virts/Johnson Space Center, via NASA Even as the Northern Hemisphere experiences the heat of summer, our planet is at ...
Such displays are often called “planet alignments,” although the term is a bit misleading. Planets always appear along the ecliptic, the plane of the solar system where they orbit the Sun. This ...
Shortly before Christmas, a US Air Force weather satellite shattered into 50 pieces: one of four recent ‘fragmentation’ events in orbit that have experts raising the alarm about ... launched in the ...
Planetary geologists like me are interested ... achieving the mission's primary goal of reaching orbit. Science News // 15 hours ago K2 Space names former Pentagon official head of space policy ...