Satellite News

China conducted two launches of classified Yaogan satellites in the last week while much of the world waited to see where and when the Long March 5B would fall.

Rocket Lab will fish another booster out of the sea this weekend, if all goes according to plan.

A never-ending detonation could be the key to hypersonic flight and space planes that can seamlessly fly from Earth into orbit.

As the sun’s activity waxes and wanes, so does the ionosphere of Venus, a key layer in the upper atmosphere, according to new observations that cinch a decades-old suspicion.

The high-tech EDEN ISS Martian greenhouse in Antarctica has produced an abundant harvest of vegetables, proving the technology might be on track for deployment on the moon in the next decade.

On May 12, 2000, two Russian cosmonauts embarked on the 80th and final spacewalk at the Mir space station. This was also the first commercially financed spacewalk. See how it happened in our “On This Day In Space” series!

Plans are firming up to bring a sample of Mars back to Earth in 2031.

Plans are firming up to bring a sample of Mars back to Earth in 2031.