Orbiting

Astronauts to stay on ISS for weeks longer amid probe into Boeing Starliner’s thruster issue

Two NASA astronauts will stay longer at the International Space Station as engineers troubleshoot problems on Boeing's new space capsule…

4 days ago

How alien life could arise on planets orbiting white dwarfs

Planets could survive the death of their star and become capable of supporting life — and now astronomers are going…

2 weeks ago

Boeing’s Starliner capsule docks with ISS after facing thruster issues

Boeing's new Starliner capsule and its inaugural two-member NASA crew safely docked with the International Space Station on Thursday, meeting…

4 weeks ago

Network of Robotic Telescopes Finds New Earth-Sized World Orbiting an Ultra-Cool Star

Artist’s view of exoplanet SPECULOOS-3 b orbiting its star. The planet is as big as the Earth, while its star…

1 month ago

Some of The Oldest Stars in The Universe Were Just Found Orbiting The Milky Way : ScienceAlert

Mention the Milky Way and most people will visualise a great big spiral galaxy billions of years old. It's thought…

2 months ago

Earth-Sized World Found Orbiting a Teensy Jupiter-Sized Star : ScienceAlert

Stars, like people, come in a dazzling array. There are stable yellow-white stars, like the Sun; there are ginormous, blazing,…

2 months ago

A NASA spacecraft spotted something weird orbiting the moon. It was just a lunar neighbor.

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) snapped a perfectly timed photo as it crossed paths with another spacecraft orbiting the moon. The…

3 months ago

Q&A: what would orbiting nuclear weapons mean for the space economy?

Is A New Space Race Upon Us? Credit: Imaginima Via Gettyimages. In February US President Joe Biden stated that Russia…

4 months ago

Astronomers Detect Hidden Moons Orbiting Neptune And Uranus : ScienceAlert

Jupiter and Saturn need to step aside with their moon-hogging ways. The outer planets of the Solar System have also…

4 months ago

A Small Galaxy Orbiting The Milky Way Might Not Be What We Thought : ScienceAlert

Distances in space are hard to measure. Unless you know how intrinsically bright something is, working out how far away…

6 months ago

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