Satellite News

Located at the outer edge of the solar system, the distant planet Neptune will make its closest approach to Earth on Friday, when it will be visible in opposition to the sun all through the night.

Mars and the moon will make a close approach to each other in the sky tonight (Sept. 16), and here’s what you can expect to see.

A “new era” in Martian water searches awaits, a new study suggests, with hundreds of ancient lakes likely still lying undetected on the Red Planet.

As the United States continues to leverage more commercial satellites for intelligence and communications work, Russia has warned these craft may become a “legitimate target” for wartime operations.

A team of physicists has found that the remnant of a neutron star merger observed in 2019 has just the right mass to be a strange hypothetical quark star.

An intermediate spiral galaxy called NGC 1961 was photographed by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, revealing gorgeous spiral arms and glittering, blue regions of bright young stars.

Inspiration4 raised $250 million for charity during the first-ever all-private crewed mission to orbit, and it’s just the start of a program using SpaceX vehicles for private flights.

The Sept. 28 SpaceX launch on behalf of the Space Development Agency slipped due to supply chain problems, with bid issues and software development also contributing.