Several companies are looking to launch spacecraft into orbit without using conventional rocket boosters. Take SpinLaunch, for example, which aims to eventually fire satellites to space using a ...

There is no danger of 2020 VN 40 colliding with Neptune, as the orbit of this distant world is very inclined with respect to ...

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Have you ever wondered why all the planets in our solar system orbit in the same plane? This fascinating characteristic of planetary orbits has intrigued astronomers for centuries. When we observe the ...

The Subaru Telescope has made an exciting discovery: a small body beyond Pluto, with implications for the formation, evolution, and current structure of the outer solar system.

Virgin Orbit named the mission “Tubular Bells, Pt. 1”, after the Mike Oldfield record that inspired billionaire and Virgin empire founder Richard Branson to start Virgin Records in 1973.

Earth’s orbit around the Sun is not circular, but an ellipse that is slightly elongated with an eccentricity of 0.017. (An eccentricity of 0 is a circle, while the dwarf planet Pluto has a ...

Endings. There really was only one lifeline left for Virgin Orbit. It needed the United Kingdom or United States government to step in and decide that the company was providing an essential service.