"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." ...

and plenty of software solutions have been developed in the six years since the end of Kepler's primary mission to help facilitate crunching large sets of data to look for planets around other stars.

This, in turn, generates drag on the plane, gradually slowing it down and lowering its altitude over the course of multiple passes around the planet. The X-37B launched on Mission 7 from Vandenberg ...

"The successful execution of the aerobraking maneuver underscores the U.S. Space Force’s commitment to pushing the bounds of novel space operations in a safe and responsible manner." ...

Days after a senior figure spoke of the agency's determination to 'control the space domain', mystery continues to surround the primary function of the X-37B spacecraft, which quietly returned to ...

Goodbye to what we knew about the universe: a new black hole is discovered that could upset the origin of the Big Bang The X-37B spacecraft ... the spacecraft with our planet as a backdrop.

Launched by SpaceX, the X-37B vehicle carried no people, just military experiments. Its predawn touchdown at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California was not announced until hours after the fact.