Lagrange points are spots in space where the gravity of multiple objects basically cancels each other out from the point of ...

How many moons does Earth have? The answer seems obvious: Earth has only one moon. It's even in the name: the moon. At first, Earth's moon needed no other name, because for millennia, we didn't know ...

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 ...

Two micro-satellites originally launched into Earth’s orbit in 2007 by NASA have been redirected by University of California, Berkeley, scientists toward new orbits around the Moon, extending study of ...

Advanced space travel relies on a fundamental understanding of the restricted three-body problem (RTBP), in which one of the three bodies—typically a spacecraft—is so small that its gravity doesn’t ...

The European Space Agency (ESA)’s Euclid space telescope has arrived at its orbit around the sun. Launched from Cape Canaveral on July 1, the telescope is now in at orbit around the sun at the L2 ...

The launch is scheduled for Saturday, July 1 at 11:12 a.m. from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Falcon 9 went vertical at SLC-40 early this morning ahead of today’s ...

The Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite today reached its orbit position 1 million miles from Earth, little more than 100 days after its winter launch. The National Oceanic and ...

(CNN) — The first Indian solar observatory has successfully reached its intended orbit, the country’s Space Research Organisation announced Saturday, as India seeks to cement its status as an emerging ...