Satellite News

Blue Origin will launch its New Shepard rocket on a test flight from its West Texas site today (April 14) during a window that opens at 9 a.m. EDT (1300 GMT; 8 a.m. local time). Watch it live!

The permanent oxygenation of Earth’s atmosphere took twice as long as previously believed and finally finished up to 100 million years later than expected.

In late April, skywatchers in the Northern Hemisphere will get a view of the Lyrid meteor shower, the dusty trail of a comet with a centuries-long orbit around the sun.

The United Arab Emirates’ robotic Rashid moon rover will be delivered to the lunar surface in 2022 by HAKUTO-R, a lander built by the Japanese company ispace.

Blue Origin plans to launch an uncrewed test flight of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle today (April 14), and you can watch the action live.

On April 14, 1981, the first space shuttle mission returned to Earth after a two-day flight in space. See how it happened in our “On This Day In Space” series!

Could lightning strikes have helped to spark life on planet Earth billions of years ago?

What might look like a scene from a science fiction film is actually a real-life image of dunes speckling the surface of Mars.