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Getting from Earth to space isn’t just about speed—it’s about planning the right trajectory. The Moon, our closest neighbor, ...

Astronomers Spot a 'Highly Eccentric' Planet on Its Way to Becoming a Hot Jupiter July 17, 2024 — The newly discovered planet TIC 241249530 b has the most highly elliptical, or eccentric, orbit ...

The world’s premier space observatory has spotted a mysterious and huge, free-floating planetary-mass object that’s “just 20 ...

Scientists have detected a potential exoplanet using an unusual method — tracking shifts in another planet’s orbit. The hot Jupiter TOI-2818b was found to have an unexpected timing variation, hinting ...

Turns out, there’s a lot more floating around the planet Saturn than those famous rings. Space scientists announced last week they’ve discovered Saturn has 128 more moons, for a total of 274, far more ...

Even lesser-known are companion planets to hot Jupiters—planets that orbit the same star as a hot Jupiter. One method for ...

The Startup Pulsar Fusion is proposing a 2 Megawatt nuclear fusion orbital components for 2027. Pulsar has now proceeded to ...

Jupiter and Saturn have been locked in a battle ... it pulled a few moderately large moons into its orbit. Over the preceding millennia, those moons have collided from time to time, breaking ...

Studying young gas giant exoplanets' compositions and orbits could help us better understand how our own solar system's gas ...

As of February 2024, Jupiter has 95 moons ... These are objects that orbit their host planet on an elliptical, inclined, or backwards path. They also tend to have been captured by their host ...

The number of known moons in our Solar System has been rising for centuries, but astronomers say it has probably peaked – for ...