Time-lapse orbit animation of OSIRIS-APEX's epic journey to asteroid Apophis

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to ...
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Here’s How Stars Orbit Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole

Black holes continue to amaze us for an endless number of reasons. The celestial objects are furious feasters of gas and they send ripples through the fabric of spacetime. Now, in another ...
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Small Asteroid Impacted Earth Recently - See An Orbit Animation

Asteroid 2024 UQ impacted Earth above the Pacific Ocean. The space rock was about 3 feet (1 meter) wide. It was detected by the ATLAS survey on the day it struck Earth. Credit: Space.com | animation: ...
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Animation showing ESA's CHaracterising ExOPlanets Satellite (CHEOPS) in orbit above Earth

The CHaracterising ExOPlanets Satellite (CHEOPS) orbits Earth at an altitude of approximately 700 kilometres in a Sun-synchronous orbit that travels above the day-night terminator; such a ...
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Here's A NASA/SpaceX Animation Showing How America's Return To Putting People In Orbit Will Go

It's alarming to remember that no astronauts have been launched to orbit from the United States since 2011, when the ambitious but ultimately disappointing Space Shuttle fleet was retired. Sure, ...
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‘Home’ Sends DreamWorks Animation Into Orbit With $54 Million Box-Office Debut

The stellar $54 million box-office debut of “Home,” the family film about a wayward purple alien visiting Earth, gave struggling DreamWorks Animation the best news it’s received in months on Sunday.