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14 Nov 2008, 8:31 am
First photos ever of an extrasolar planet orbiting a star like our own.Developing a vaccine for Type I diabetes. [read post]
17 May 2017, 11:25 am by Tom Smith
The spacecraft will be deployed in a Sun-synchronous orbit, ensuring it will pass over every location in the world during its journey among the stars, which will last about 2 years before re-entering the atmosphere as a shooting star. [read post]
17 May 2017, 11:25 am by Tom Smith
The spacecraft will be deployed in a Sun-synchronous orbit, ensuring it will pass over every location in the world during its journey among the stars, which will last about 2 years before re-entering the atmosphere as a shooting star. [read post]
7 Oct 2017, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Not only did he come up with the theory of electrons traveling in discrete orbits around an atom’s nucleus, but he also originated the idea of the quantum leap between orbits – the basis of quantum theory. [read post]
4 Jun 2014, 6:51 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Today the United States is the major partner in a massive orbital facility – the International Space Station – that is becoming the focal point for the first tentative steps in commercial cargo and crewed orbital space flights. [read post]
22 Feb 2011, 8:35 pm
Its orbit could take 3,800 years and we could be entering a time when it is closest to us -- inside the Pluto orbit on the drawing. [read post]
16 Sep 2010, 1:46 pm by PJ Blount
Space Adventures, headquartered in Vienna, Va., is the only company that provides orbital spaceflight opportunities to the world marketplace. [read post]
16 Nov 2021, 7:16 am
  Low earth orbiting satellites typically have short useable lives with no station keeping capability. [read post]
16 Nov 2021, 7:16 am
  Low earth orbiting satellites typically have short useable lives with no station keeping capability. [read post]
18 Oct 2021, 12:30 pm by Tom Smith
Starlink already had permission to launch 12,000 satellites, roughly six times the number of active satellites then in orbit. [read post]
24 Mar 2011, 1:30 pm by Lucas A. Ferrara, Esq.
Light Show A grand ringed planet, Saturn is one of the most intriguing bodies orbiting our sun. [read post]
12 Mar 2009, 2:26 pm
This past Tuesday, FDA issued new safety guidelines for companies that use peanut products, reported Red Orbit. [read post]
3 May 2016, 12:16 am by Tom Smith
A Belgian-led team reported Monday that it's discovered three Earth-sized planets orbiting an ultra-cool dwarf star less than 40 light-years away. [read post]
3 Jun 2018, 8:50 am by Tom Smith
Several methods have been proposed so far for reducing launch costs, which include reusable rockets and single-stage-to-orbit rockets. [read post]
30 Aug 2010, 6:44 am by Michael
Orbit Books, The Chart of Fantasy Art, 2009 (spotted via Boing Boing via Making Light) [read post]
30 Aug 2010, 6:44 am by froomkin@law.tm
Orbit Books, The Chart of Fantasy Art, 2009 (spotted via Boing Boing via Making Light) [read post]
26 Jul 2018, 10:20 am by Tom Smith
Scientists using ground-penetrating radar from an orbiting spacecraft have discovered what appears to be a 20-kilometre-wide lake underneath one of the Martian ice caps. [read post]