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There's a new interstellar comet in the neighborhood! Known as 3I/ATLAS, this comet poses no threat to Earth – but it does ...
A new initial orbit determination (IOD) method using single-site very short arc radar observations is proposed. The method uses slant range, azimuth, and elevation angles to determine the position ...
The object was first noticed by NASA's Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), with further observations ...
Astronomy news always seems to break over coffee, on laptop startup. That was the case on Wednesday morning, when word of a ...
Aliens: Dead Orbit is a four-issue comic book series that was written, illustrated, colored, and lettered by James Stokoe and edited by Daniel Chabon and ...
How many Earth-like exoplanets orbit M dwarf stars (Red dwarf stars), which are smaller and cooler than our Sun? This is what ...
Project Kuiper will deliver high-speed, low-latency internet to virtually any location on the planet, and we expect to begin delivering service to customers later this year. Our first-generation ...
According to the latest studies led by Heidelberg University astronomers, low-mass stars quite often host Earth-like planets. Data collected as part of the CARMENES project were the basis of this ...
Finally, the Earth moves a little bit beyond one complete revolution, so the stick again points towards the sun for a second ...
The Exploration Company lost contact with its Mission Possible vehicle a few minutes before touchdown in the ocean.
A European company that seeks to develop orbital spacecraft for cargo, and eventually humans, took a step forward this week ...
In the first SpaDeX mission, two 220-kg satellites were launched into a 470-km circular orbit. With a small relative velocity introduced between them, the satellites were allowed to drift apart before ...