Satellite News

Blue Origin’s future New Glenn rocket will join NASA’s fleet of commercial launch vehicles for flights in the mid-2020s, the agency and company have announced.

Jupiter and Saturn will align in the night sky on Dec. 21 in an event astronomers call the “great conjunction” marking the planets’ closest encounter in nearly 400 years.

On Dec. 18, 1999, NASA launched its flagship Terra satellite into Earth’s orbit. See how it happened in our “On This Day In Space” series!

Reid Wiseman has been named Chief of the Astronaut Office at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.

Following the collapse of the historic Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, China has opened the biggest radio telescope in the world up to international scientists.

The Chang’e 5 return capsule carrying lunar samples is headed for a Beijing laboratory for opening, with a research team eagerly awaiting their chance to start studying the fresh moon specimens.

Scientists have discovered the longest intergalactic filament in the cosmos.

Arianespace will use a Soyuz rocket to launch 36 satellites for OneWeb’s satellite-internet constellation on Friday (Dec. 18) at 7:26 a.m. EST (1226 GMT). Watch it live here!