Lagrange points are locations around a two-body system where the gravitational forces of the two objects, in this case Earth and the Moon, are equal to the centrifugal force. This allows for a ...

The Earth-moon Lagrange points may be next. In 2024, the U.S. House Select Committee on the China adopted the most definitive ...

On Monday, Jan. 24, engineers plan to instruct NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to complete a final correction burn that will place it into its desired orbit, nearly 1 million miles away from the ...

"In RTBP systems, Lagrange points between the two celestial bodies provide specific locations around which a spacecraft can orbit," explains Mingpei Lin, a member of an AIMR research team. "The ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has been traveling through space since its launch on December 25, 2021, and will soon face the next crucial step in its mission, performing an orbital burn to insert ...

Correction: An earlier version of this story erroneously stated that China’s Queqiao satellite was orbiting the Earth-Sun L2 Lagrange point. In fact, Queqiao orbits the Earth-Moon L2 Lagrange point, a ...

The European Space Agency (ESA)’s Euclid space telescope has arrived at its orbit around the sun. Launched from Cape Canaveral on July 1, the telescope is now in at orbit around the sun at the L2 ...

Japan’s space agency Jaxa has announced it successfully used steam to propel its spacecraft that was launched as one of the payloads aboard Nasa’s Orion spacecraft. “This is the world’s first ...

Advanced space travel relies on a fundamental understanding of the restricted three-body problem (RTBP), in which one of the three bodies—typically a spacecraft—is so small that its gravity doesn’t ...