orbit

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has begun a three-month journey covering roughly one million miles as it travels toward its final orbit.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026

The Space Academy is the latest policy push at the White House tied to U.S. activities in orbit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

These methods are quite good at finding gigantic planets and planets that orbit incredibly close to their host stars — in other words, planets nothing like Earth.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

Evercore analysts said the move will also allow SpaceX to put data centers into orbit, potentially dodging the growing backlash in the U.S. against artificial-intelligence cloud operators.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026

Season is not a hemispheric effect but a global one, a result of the elliptoid orbit.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope, launched in 2021, also orbits the Sun around one million miles from Earth, but its field of vision is not as expansive.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026

Nasa's Hubble Space Telescope, launched in 1990, orbits at about 300 miles above Earth's surface.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026

The team hopes that data from two complete orbits will allow them to determine the star's trajectory with enough precision they can also directly measure the black hole's rotation.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

Because the satellites travel in carefully coordinated orbits, they can separate magnetic signals coming from the core from signals produced by the crust, oceans, ionosphere and magnetosphere.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026

When within sight of the Earth on each of its orbits, it would stimulate outpourings of superstitious fervor among the Earthlings.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

Back in 1968, Apollo 8 orbited the Moon 10 times without landing.

From Barron's ● Apr. 7, 2026

Among the many faulty narratives that orbited out of the government, one asked us to consider the mental anguish suffered by these dispatched officers.

From Slate ● Feb. 12, 2026

He added that as the galaxies orbited one another and moved toward the superheated gas cloud surrounding the Virgo cluster, which reaches temperatures about 200 times hotter than the Sun's surface, they experienced "ram pressure."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2025

The Sentinel-1 satellites that Peter uses orbited over Halley Bay, taking pictures of the ice sheet.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2024

About the size of a three- bedroom house, this space station, called Skylab, orbited the earth for six years on a journey that covered nearly one billion miles.

From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins

In this scenario, two stars orbiting closely around each other approach a supermassive black hole.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026

The book expands outward, creating an enormous system of stories orbiting the sisters’ lives and legends.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

Astronaut Wally Schirra boarded the vessel wearing his personal Omega Speedmaster Professional, orbiting Earth six times over the course of nine hours.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

Meteor showers happen when the Earth passes through trails of debris from asteroids or comets - a snowball of frozen rock and gas orbiting the Sun.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

It was also the same day and night and throughout the year, even though the earth was rotating on its axis and orbiting around the sun.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking