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An ascender atop the lander will then take the samples in a metal vacuum container back to another module that is orbiting the moon.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 1, 2024

Solar eclipses occur because, as the Earth is orbiting the sun, the moon is orbiting the Earth.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2024

Indeed, LP 791-18d is orbiting very close to exoplanets LP 791-18b and c.

From Salon • May 24, 2023

He reasoned that the outermost electron of a silver atom, which according to Bohr is orbiting the nucleus in a circle, is an electric charge in motion, and it should therefore produce magnetism.

From Scientific American • Feb. 8, 2022

They also observe systems in which there is only one visible star that is orbiting around some unseen companion.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking