The first Mercury retrograde of the year goes from Saturday, March 15 to Monday, April 7. Retrogrades are optical illusions ...

A planetary retrograde occurs when a planet appears to move backward in its orbit from our viewpoint on Earth. While this is an optical illusion, its astrological impact is significant.

Mercury completes its orbit around the sun in only 88 days, causing it to appear retrograde three or four times a year for about three weeks at a time, according to Farmers' Almanac.

The satellites, developed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, were shown operating in their planned distant retrograde orbit (DRO) in a PowerPoint slide attributed to CAS that started circulating ...

While Chinese state media did not explicitly state the Moon as the intended destination, a 2023 journal paper suggests that the DRO-A and B pair were meant to enter a distant retrograde orbit (DRO ...