Speed limits in residential streets could be slashed to a crawling 30km/h under sweeping new proposals suggested by the state’s infrastructure advisory body. The draft strategy, proposed by ...

Samantha Harvey’s novel “Orbital,” which won the Booker Prize last year, has a tight, poetic frame: We follow one day in the lives of six people working on a space station above Earth ...

It envisages uses including vast nets for orbital debris collection, tethers for a space elevator, or self-assembled wings for a commercial space station. A long, slimy tentacle resulting from a ...

Here's an example. The circumference (distance around ... Earth's spin, of course, is not the only motion we have in space. Our orbital speed around the sun is about 67,000 mph (107,000 km/h ...

“We were amazed to find such a clear imprint of the different orbital parameters on the climate record,” added lead author Stephen Barker, a professor at Cardiff University, in the UK. “It is quite ...

For example, Mercury, being closest to the sun ... times are due to each planet's distance from the sun and its orbital speed. Our closest neighbors, Mars and Venus, have similar revolution ...