Satellite News

As the race to launch the first astronaut into space heats up, NASA faces more challenges and delays in the sixth episode of National Geographic’s “The Right Stuff.”

Virgin Galactic aims to launch its VSS Unity space plane on its third test flight to suborbital space between Nov. 19 and Nov. 23, according to an update the company released on Thursday (Nov. 5).

Astronomers say they’ll have to keep an eye on the near-Earth asteroid Apophis to see how much of a danger the space rock poses to our planet during a close pass in 2068.

New theory suggests cosmic bubbles during the birth of our universe are responsible for creating dark matter.

On Nov. 6, 1572, the German astronomer Wolfgang Schulër observed a supernova with his bare eyes. See how it happened in our “On This Day In Space” series!