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Instead, both objects might have relatively small masses, allowing them to orbit each other with much less dramatic motion.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026

Starlink, owned by Musk's SpaceX, uses satellites in low Earth orbit to provide internet access, particularly in remote areas where mobile networks and broadband cables are difficult or expensive to install.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

Most of the remaining material would have dispersed into space long ago, while the planet remained in orbit.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 9, 2026

Continuously inhabited for the last quarter-century, the aging ISS is scheduled to be pushed out of orbit before crashing into one of Earth's oceans sometime around 2030.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

As each moon goes around its parent planet in a regular orbit, just as the Earth follows a regular one-year orbit around the Sun, each moon ought to be eclipsed behind Jupiter at regular intervals.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin

Their movement disturbed the orbits of smaller objects, setting off catastrophic collisions and producing brief periods filled with large amounts of dust, similar to what astronomers now observe in extreme debris disks.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

“Everything orbits around Shohei in the sense of his talent,” Roberts said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

The 407-foot-tall rocket was scheduled to embark on a nearly 10-hour mission in which it was to complete six orbits around the Earth before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

Now in its initial orbital mission, Starship is expected to fly at an altitude about 275 kilometers above Earth and complete as many as six orbits around the planet over the course of several hours.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

The earth orbits the sun, traveling at an average speed of 107,200 kilometers per hour.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

Yet it was still an undoubted factor considering the team had orbited around Isak, who scored 27 goals in the previous season.

From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026

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

Then, in May, the Soviet Union orbited Sputnik III, weighing in at a whopping 2,925 pounds.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

Four new crew members for the ISS docked at the orbiting laboratory last week and will stay for approximately six months.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

One of the driving questions that the James Webb Space Telescope is being used to answer is whether planets orbiting stars much smaller than the sun have atmospheres.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

The job of the orbiting receivers now was to determine in a split second which of Aurich’s variations would work in that particular scenario.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Now Meink was saying we have systems that can do this “on orbit”—that is, while orbiting in outer space.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

“And I’d love to continue our conversation about Einstein’s theories, like how black holes make orbiting matter wobble.”

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas