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Smaller planets could still orbit either star, and the system remains a promising destination for future observations.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

"We are in close contact with our American partners, including Mr. Musk, because it is crucial in orbit not to interfere with one another."

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

During Corning’s quarterly earnings call, an analyst asked if Starlink could become a “frenemy” as the low-earth orbit satellite business moves toward terrestrial infrastructure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

Orion will also be placed into orbit around the Earth, and the crew will spend two days checking out their spacecraft.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

Yakov’s death had thrown the world out of orbit, sent it hurtling.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

Until now, observations of close interactions between stars and their planetary companions have largely emphasized either stable orbits or relatively rapid engulfment events.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026

“Everything orbits around Shohei in the sense of his talent,” Roberts said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

Now in its initial orbital mission, Starship is expected to fly at an altitude about 275 kilometers above Earth and complete as many as six orbits around the planet over the course of several hours.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

The 407-foot-tall rocket is embarking on a nearly 10-hour mission in which it is to complete six orbits around the Earth before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

Washington was the core of gravity that prevented the American Revolution from flying off into random orbits, the stable center around which the revolutionary energies formed.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

As those components orbited the star, they could produce highly unusual, non natural variations in brightness that would stand out from the behavior of ordinary stars.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026

Back in 1968, Apollo 8 orbited the Moon 10 times without landing.

From Barron's ● Apr. 7, 2026

Among the many faulty narratives that orbited out of the government, one asked us to consider the mental anguish suffered by these dispatched officers.

From Slate ● Feb. 12, 2026

But, all these years later, I was reminded that Ozzy, despite his well-crafted Prince of Darkness persona, was the sun that brought brightness and warmth to the familial chaos that orbited around him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2025

DVDs and cases orbited in a ring around it, mostly Farsi-language dubs of Bollywood movies.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram

Astronomers can use these changes to search for planets because an orbiting planet's gravity causes its host star to move slightly back and forth.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

Nearby you’ll see the Apollo-Soyuz Command Module, which American astronauts Tom Stafford, Deke Slayton and Vance D. Brand flew to meet with a Russian Soyuz spacecraft orbiting Earth in 1975.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

Rather than orbiting a planet, this unusual object circles a brown dwarf, a celestial body more massive than a planet but not massive enough to become a star.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

Musk has said SpaceX’s future success hinges on its Starship rocket, slated to carry astronauts to the moon and launch hundreds of thousands of communications satellites and orbiting data centers to power its AI ambitions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

She watched the men in the dust of the Moon and thought of the orbiting command service module, out of view of the camera, circling the Moon every ninety minutes.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly