Satellite News

Artificial satellites from Earth have only populated space since 1957, but there are now hundreds of thousands of objects from our planet in orbit.

NASA has tapped SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket to launch a new mission to study the protective bubble around our solar system.

Investigators have traced the source of the leak to the “main work area” of the Zvezda Service Module, the heart of the Russian part of the station, NASA officials announced today (Sept. 29).

Distinguishing biological organic molecules from others could help future space missions home in on unambiguous evidence of past or present life on other planets, in their moon’s icy oceans, or even in the lava-tube caves on the Red Planet.

Wildfires are burning the West Coast, hurricanes are flooding the Southeast — and some of those storms are rising from the dead.

NASA and SpaceX will hold a series of press conferences today to discuss the upcoming Oct. 31 launch of Crew-1. Watch live.

On Sept. 29, 1977, the Salyut 6 space station launched into orbit. See how it happened in our “On This Day In Space” series!

Black holes can get big … really big. But just how big? It’s possible they could top out at over a trillion times more massive than the sun.