I have kind of a mental disconnect when trying to understand how orbits work. I know, from doing a lot of reading, that a spacecraft in orbit around a body like Earth can increase its orbital height ...

A research team from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS), along with collaborators, has found that long-term orbital variations occurring over ...

Jeremy B. Jones, Cassini Navigation Team Chief at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, explains. The orbit of a spacecraft is primarily determined by the gravity of a single large central body like the ...

If there is a two day gap between the rotation and revolution of the moon, then why don't we see its dark side? originally appeared on Quora: the knowledge sharing network where compelling questions ...

This aerial photo taken on June 22, 2023 shows China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) under maintenance in southwest China's Guizhou Province. China's FAST telescope ...

I don’t usually write about newly discovered record-breaking objects found by astronomers, because in general it’s not long before that record falls. But in this case, I’ll make an exception for ...