Satellite News

China launched an experimental spacecraft into orbit on Friday (Sept. 4), with few details about what the spacecraft will do.

Space Policy Directive-5 establishes a set of principles designed to protect the nation’s valuable space assets from a burgeoning variety of cyber threats.

For black holes, a collision doesn’t have to be a once-in-a-lifetime experience, new research suggests.

Every once in a while, something will appear in the sky that will attract the attention of even those who normally don’t bother looking up.

The new space series “Away,” which highlights the emotional (and often life-threatening) struggles that the first humans embarking on a trip to Mars may face, launches on Netflix today (Sept. 4).

In a show that is primarily set aboard a fictional spacecraft flying through simulated space, there is a scene in the new Netflix Mars mission series, “Away,” that looks particularly close to the real thing — and that is because it is.

On Sept. 4, 1962, NASA’s Mariner 2 spacecraft performed the first-ever rocket maneuver in deep space. Here’s how it happened in our On This Day in Space video series!

NASA’s highly anticipated mission to the Jupiter ocean moon Europa needs a rocket — and soon, the project’s planners say.