Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie’ pays homage to the non-carbonated beverage containing little jelly-like balls.

Researchers used a pair of powerful supercomputers to simulate the potential trajectories of 1 million satellites in a ...

Could we prevent in-orbit crashes in the future by using advanced computer models?

Larger planets with eccentric orbits also point to a more chaotic period of formation, during which planets interact via gravitational forces to produce noncircular orbits. For example, eccentric ...

Online travel agency Orbitz will soon find itself under the microscope again. As part of the transportation spending bill signed by President Bush on Tuesday, Congress has called on the Department of ...

Orbitz, the new online travel agency that's backed by five major airlines, officially launched on June 4, prompting a wave of scrutiny and controversy that has become ...

Earth is on an orderly path around the sun, orbiting in nearly the same plane as our star’s equator. In 2008, however, astronomers began finding worlds in other solar systems that sail far above and ...

The planets of our solar system all orbit the Sun within a few degrees of a flat plane extending out from our star’s equator — its equatorial plane. That makes sense. Our solar system began as a ...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory creates a cislunar orbit map to help predict satellite stability and improve collision avoidance in increasingly crowded Earth orbits.

LEO, GEO, L2, SSO—oh my! The many types of useful orbits can get complicated fast, but our handy guide will help you make sense of it all. Reading time 1 minute Nearly 140 rockets have flown to space ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In October, a Falcon Heavy rocket is scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral in Florida, carrying NASA’s Europa Clipper mission. The $5 ...