U.S. President Trump's "One, Big Beautiful Bill Act," H.R. 1 includes $1 billion for the U.S. Space Force (USSF) X-37B ...

The liftoff of the SpaceX Commercial GTO 1 mission is set to occur during a three and a half hour window which opens at 1:04 a.m. July 13. SpaceX typically favors the beginning of the launch window, ...

Early July 13, a new SpaceX mission will lift off from Cape Canaveral. Here's what to know about Commercial GTO 1.

On July 9, 2025, scientists at the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) reported that the Earth ...

The science behind why the Earth will spin just a little bit faster on July 9, July 22, and August 5, this year.

Analemmas And The Equation Of Time: Why The Path Of The Sun Traces Out An 8 On Earth On Mars it traces out a teardrop, while on Jupiter, it is an ellipse.

A newly discovered object called 2017 OF201, likely a dwarf planet, travels in an extremely wide elliptical orbit (yellow), a new study suggests. The orbit of the dwarf planets Sedna and Pluto are ...

So, it has a very elliptical orbit. Credit: Institute for Advanced Study A Challenge to Planet Nine This orbit places 2017 OF201 among a class of objects known as extreme trans-Neptunian objects ...

Spacecraft that orbit around Earth do so in two types of orbits: circular and elliptical. In a circular orbit, the spacecraft is always at the same distance from the center of the Earth.

The Soviet spacecraft Kosmos-482 was launched in 1972 on a mission to Venus. But due to a rocket malfunction, it's been hurtling back towards Earth in an elliptical orbit for the past 53 years.

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With the advent of multiple Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), the feasibility of navigation using GNSS observations beyond Low Earth Orbits has been explored in recent years. An estimation ...