The downward migration in 2026 involves roughly half of SpaceX's Starlink megaconstellation, which currently consists of ...

Michael Nicolls, SpaceX’s vice president of Starlink engineering, announced that satellites currently orbiting at around 550 ...

SpaceX is preparing a sweeping reshuffle of its Starlink broadband network, planning to lower the orbits of about 4,400 ...

Even most rocket scientists would rather avoid hard math when they don't have to do it. So when it comes to figuring out ...

The newly identified cluster of Kuiper Belt objects lies about 4 billion miles from the Sun, offering fresh clues about how ...

Starlink, SpaceX's satellite network, plans to lower its satellite orbits from 550 km to 480 km by 2026 to enhance space ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cometary orbits exhibit a wide range of shapes and eccentricities, not all being highly elliptical. Comets originating from the Oort Cloud possess highly eccentric elliptical orbits, subject to ...

Okapi:Orbits publicly released its first automated collision avoidance service. Since it was founded in 2018, Okapi has been developing software that harnesses artificial intelligence to help ...