Satellite News

Charles “Chuck” Yeager, who has died aged 97, epitomised the movie test pilot of the 1940s and 1950s.

NASA’s new data sonification project turns the universe’s most extreme phenomena into sounds.

In 2019, US President Donald Trump declared “space is the new war-fighting domain”.

If there are other intelligent civilizations in the Milky Way, they are probably much closer than we are to the galactic center, and fairly young.

The supermassive black hole hiding in the center of our galaxy is much closer to Earth, about 2,000 light-years closer, than scientists thought.

On Jan. 2, 2004, NASA’s Stardust spacecraft flew by Comet Wild 2 to collect comet dust. See how it happened in our “On This Day In Space” series!

The Quadrantid meteor shower of 2021 peaks overnight on Jan. 2 and 3, but the bright moon will spoil the view.

On January 1, 1801, Giuseppe Piazzi discovered the dwarf planet Ceres. See how it happened in our “On This Day In Space” series!