Satellite News

For more than a billion years, Earth covered itself in new continents. New research shows that those continents were quickly swallowed up again but their deaths fertilized life on the surface.

The man who first broke the speed of sound died Monday (Dec. 7) at age 97.

A space shuttle solid rocket booster has been delivered to a Southern California museum to become the centerpiece of a new memorial to NASA’s fallen astronauts.

Japanese scientists are thrilled to finally have asteroid samples arrive Monday (Dec. 7) after a long flight from Australia — and a much longer journey through the solar system.

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured an image of China’s Chang’e 5 lander on the moon just hours after its historic landing.

On Dec. 8, 1990, NASA’s Galileo spacecraft flew by Earth on its way to Jupiter. See how it happened in our “On This Day In Space” series!

Chuck Yeager, the U.S. Air Force Pilot who became the first person to break the sound barrier, passed away today (Dec. 7) at the age of 97.

Arianespace has signed a contract with Airbus to launch four new-generation optical observation satellites of the CO3D (Composante Optique 3D) constellation, to be orbited using the Vega C launcher.