In the cold, dark outskirts of planetary systems far beyond the reach of the known planets, mysterious gas giants and ...

Astronomers have announced the discovery of a new dwarf planet in our solar system, named 2017 OF201. Located far beyond ...

A radical architectural proposal by New York-based Clouds Architecture Office envisions the world’s tallest building — suspended from an orbiting asteroid — capable of hovering over cities like New ...

Of particular interest to astronomers is the nebula's faint, Venn-diagram-like structure ... According to the statement, the long orbital period of the central binary stars may be responsible ...

A German start-up’s orbital rocket spun out and crashed seconds after take-off Sunday, in a rare European test flight that the makers said “met its set goals.” The flight, from a spaceport ...

Isar Aerospace’s Spectrum is expected to be the first commercial orbital launch vehicle to lift off from mainland Europe, departing from Norway’s Andøya Spaceport. [Courtesy: Isar Aerospace ...

The U.S. Space Force’s X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle Mission 7 landed at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, March 7, 2025. Credit: U.S. Space Force WASHINGTON — The secretive X-37B military ...

Samantha Harvey’s novel “Orbital,” which won the Booker Prize last year, has a tight, poetic frame: We follow one day in the lives of six people working on a space station above Earth ...

such as the makeup of its inner core and its orbital history. Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) scientists are studying Saturn's moon Titan to assess its tidal dissipation rate, the energy lost ...

Harvey’s win comes in the immediate wake of the terrible floods in Spain. The Booker press release describes Orbital as “a book about a wounded world” and cites its win in “a year of ...

However, she said even astronaut Tim Peake had been "very nice about it". Orbital, which is Harvey’s fifth novel and sixth book, takes place over a single day in the life of six astronauts and ...