Satellite News

On March 21, 1965, NASA launched the Ranger 9 spacecraft on a mission to crash into a lunar crater. See how it happened in our “On This Day In Space” series!

The biggest asteroid to visit Earth this year will zoom by our planet today (March 21) and it’s a real speed demon.

New images of Jupiter’s polar auroras, captured by the Juno spacecraft, revealed the full cycle of intense and unusual polar light displays.

A group of astronauts who are trailblazers for their respective ethnicities are now true “rock stars,” having asteroids named for them. The International Astronomical Union Minor Planet Center released a list of the asteroids designated for the 27 explorers.

New, stunningly detailed images of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds have the potential to revolutionize our understanding of the stars making up these two dwarf galaxies.

A supermassive black hole is racing across the universe at 110,000 mph (177,000 km/h), and the astronomers who spotted it don’t know why.