[Blueprint of Planetary Intelligence] Nereid: A Heretical Wanderer Spanning Vast Space in a Cometary Extreme Ellipse

A Heretical Wanderer Spanning Vast Space in a Cometary Extreme EllipsePrevious SummaryProteus, lingering at the size limit ...
The Aviationist

First In-orbit Photo Taken By Secretive Boeing X-37B Spacecraft Officially Released

The photo, taken during the X-37B’s seventh mission, shows Earth from High-Elliptical Orbit. On Feb. 20, 2025, the Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs uploaded on the DVIDS website, what is ...
Forbes

Today Earth Is Closest To A ‘Solar Maximum’ Sun. So Why Is It So Cold?

Earth will reach perihelion at 09:00 Universal Time on Saturday, January 4, 2025, the closest point to the sun in its annual, slightly elliptical orbit. The word comes from the Greek words peri (near) ...
Labroots

From Circular to Elliptical: How Planet Size Affects Orbit Shape

How does a planet’s size influence its orbit around its parent star? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences hopes to address as a team of ...
SpaceNews

Chinese Shiyan-10 satellite reappears in new Molniya orbit months after launch anomaly

The third Long March 7A rocket lifts off from Wenchang, Dec. 23, 2021, carrying two Shiyan-12 satellites. Credit: CASC/Liu Yan HELSINKI — A classified Chinese satellite has been tracked operating in a ...
New Scientist

Elliptical orbit gives exoplanet a regular roasting

A planet far from our solar system with an unusual orbit around its star has been observed undergoing extreme flips in temperature. During its 111-day elliptical orbit, the exoplanet swings far from ...