Satellite News

On St. Patrick’s Day in 1958, the U.S. Navy launched Vanguard 1, the first solar-powered satellite. See how it happened in our “On This Day In Space” series!

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has detected interplanetary particles from Martian dust storms, which may cause the faint column of zodiacal light that extends up from the horizon.

For the past month, the mission team has been checking out Perseverance’s seven science instruments and its various subsystems. The rover has jumped through every hoop on cue.

For the past month, the mission team has been checking out Perseverance’s seven science instruments and its various subsystems. The rover has jumped through every hoop on cue.

Russia’s only woman cosmonaut, Anna Kikina, inspires one-of-a-kind Barbie doll.

Perseverance, which landed inside Mars’ Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, successfully dropped the “belly pan” covering its sampling system last week.

For the first time in years, Russia’s Soyuz-2 launch vehicle will lift off with a new look, inspired by the rocket that put the world’s first human into space.

Oceans’ worth of water may remain buried in the crust of Mars, and not lost to space as previously long thought, a new study finds.