Satellite News

An ocean-monitoring satellite will have to wait at least 11 extra days to get into space.

If skies are clear during this upcoming week, be sure to take a few moments to gaze upward. You just might be lucky and catch a glimpse of a spectacularly bright meteor — a Taurid meteor.

Scientists think they have identified a lava world so dramatic that it might boast a thin regional atmosphere of vaporized rock where it is closest to its star.

SpaceX’s first operational astronaut launch for NASA is just nine days away, and the agency is inviting the public to go along for the historic ride.

The launch of the NROL-101 mission aboard an Atlas V rocket has been scrubbed today as ULA teams were unable to resolve a problem with the liquid oxygen system at the launch pad.

The Rosalind Franklin ExoMars rover has been reunited with the Kazachok surface platform, carrier module and descent module in Cannes, France.

On 29 October, mission operators sent a series of commands to NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft for the first time since mid-March. The spacecraft has been flying solo while the 70-meter-wide radio antenna used to talk to it has been offline for repairs and upgrades. Voyager 2 returned a signal confirming it had received the “call” and executed the commands without issue.

Astronomers have detected the first fast radio burst from a magnetar in our own Milky Way galaxy.