However, these traits are at the core of Reflect Orbital, an energy startup with a mission so audacious it borders on science fiction: selling sunlight after dark. The company, founded by Stanford ...

This remarkable finding breaks the previous record for the shortest outer orbital period in such systems, which was established in 1956 with a third star orbiting an inner pair in 33 days.

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — One of two suspects was arraigned in court Monday on charges of kidnapping and raping a woman in northwest Bakersfield as she was coming out of the In-Shape gym on Coffee ...

Artwork shows the Otter spacecraft in orbit near another satellite. (Starfish Space Illustration) Tukwila, Wash.-based Starfish Space is bringing in more funding after announcing several ...

The bodysuit contours my curves and sculpts my shape while still feeling comfortable. It highlights my butt instead of flattening it, with a cut that’s a little cheekier than the standard brief.

Orbital angular momentum monopoles have been the subject of great theoretical interest as they offer major practical advantages for the emerging field of orbitronics, a potential energy-efficient ...

If the object is moving too rapidly to be bound to the sun by gravity, it can escape the solar system; that gives it an eccentricity of 1 (an orbital shape of a parabola) or higher (a hyperbola).

This is the future that Reflect Orbital imagines is possible. The startup is developing satellites that would deploy large mirrors to precisely reflect sunlight onto specific points on the ground.

FlamingPumpkin via Getty Images When humans cover a space using tiles of the same shape without overlap or gaps—a geometrical process called tiling—we will usually opt for a shape with sharp ...

Hard as it may be to imagine, there’s a newly defined geometric shape on the books. Based on recent calculations, mathematicians have described a new classification they now call a “soft cell.” ...

Mathematicians have described 1 a new class of shape that characterizes forms commonly found in nature — from the chambers in the iconic spiral shell of the nautilus to the way in which seeds ...