"The main reason why the orbit of the moon is not a perfect circle is that there are a lot of tidal, or gravitational, forces that are pulling on the moon," said NASA's Noah Petro, deputy scientist of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission, in a 2016 Space.com interview. He added ...
The orbit ofMercuryis shifting very gradually over time due to the curvature of space-time around the massive sun,according to NASA. As the closest planet to the sun, Mercury’s perihelion (the point along its orbit that it’s closest to the sun) is predicted to follow a slightly differen...
The fan favorite "Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" is back this month, along with a new rom-com right on time for Valentine's Day.
Although space is mostly empty, it is not a perfect vacuum. "We're not actually talking about a volume that has no particles," Miranda Nelson, a spacewalk flight controller in Mission Control at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, told Live Science. There are a number of potential exp...
In 2014, NASA'sFermi Gamma-ray Space Telescopemade maps of the heart of our galaxy, theMilky Way, in gamma-ray light, revealing an excess of gamma-ray emissions extending from its core. "The signal we found cannot be explained by currently proposed alternatives and is in close agreement wi...
NASA's Advanced Composition Explorer and Wind missions, which study thesolar wind. In September 2023, theIndian Space Research OrganisationlaunchedAditya-L1, a solar mission to L1. Meanwhile, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration'sDeep Space Climate Observatoryis at L1, looking back at...