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It might allow scientists to measure how the pair's orbit evolves and determine whether the black holes are approaching their final merger.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

Pyongyang said at the time there was "no way to avoid" the hypersonic missile, which was "capable of changing its flight orbit at a low altitude".

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

Starlink is a civilian service that uses satellites in low Earth orbit to provide internet access, particularly in remote areas.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

Around the same time, after the Journal began questioning people in Nxum’s orbit, Dennis accused Vincer of telling “lies” to the press about their business agreement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

I don’t know what I’d expected, but the world certainly hadn’t been kicked out of its orbit overnight.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 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 rocket is aiming to make six orbits of Earth for the first time during a 10-hour flight, before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean to the west of Chile.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

The force that drove Newton’s apple from the branch to his head was the same force that guided planets along their celestial orbits.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

"Images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which orbited Saturn between 2004 and 2017, showed no inkling of a long-lived formation, either. The Hubble data confirmed the feature's presence back to 2023."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026

Yet it was still an undoubted factor considering the team had orbited around Isak, who scored 27 goals in the previous season.

From BBC ● Jun. 2, 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

Few supported these efforts to put a woman in space, but after American John Glenn orbited the Earth, the Soviets feared the United States was catching up or even surpassing them in the Space Race.

From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson

The observations revealed two unusually compact objects orbiting at an extremely close distance.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026

Four new crew members for the ISS docked at the orbiting laboratory last week and will stay for approximately six months.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

The job of the orbiting receivers now was to determine in a split second which of Aurich’s variations would work in that particular scenario.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

It will make 35 flybys of the three large moons while orbiting Jupiter, before changing orbits to Ganymede.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026

With Janice and Eduardo orbiting me like flitting moons I felt like the emperor of a secret world.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee