Orbit

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have found the possible 'sibling' of a planet orbiting a distant star. The team has detected a cloud of debris that…

Mass is mass is mass. Physicists have three different definitions of mass, all thought to be equivalent. Measurements of the distance between Earth and the moon confirm that…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The joint research team of Electrical Engineering and…

In yet another feat, India has successfully put into orbit the first of its second generation navigation satellite, NVS-01. After a flight of about 19 minutes, the NVS-O1 satellitewas…

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Saturday successfully launched the PSLV-C55 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota and placed two Singaporean satellites for Earth…

BRUCE R. MILLER When Michael Zegen read the first script for “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” he thought Joel Maisel was doomed.“I thought he was going to…

Virgin Orbit, the satellite launch company founded by Richard Branson, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and will sell the business, the firm said in a statement Tuesday.The…

Issued on: 04/04/2023 - 10:19 Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit Holdings filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Tuesday after…

Archaeologists have probed the cultures of people all over the Earth—so why not study a unique community that’s out of this world? One team is creating a first-of-its-kind archaeological…

In 2017, a mysterious comet dubbed 'Oumuamua fired the imaginations of scientists and the public alike. It was the first known visitor from outside our solar system, it had no bright coma or…