China’s experimental satellites - Tiandu-1 and Tiandu-2 beamed back an eerie picture of the Moon and Earth recently. The pair of two small satellites, which were launched on March 19 aboard the ...

The two images released Thursday morning show the six-legged Nova-C lander with Earth in the background. Intuitive Machines shared the photos within about 13 hours of the spacecraft launching to ...

A fan of geologic catastrophes on the Earth and beyond, Tamara joined Nature Geoscience in 2012 following postdoctoral research at the University of Vienna and has head the editorial team since 2020.

The 84-minute period plays a role in many geodetic calculations, for example as the shortest possible orbital period of a satellite around the earth. If there were a straight tunnel between New ...