Satellite News

Space.com caught up with Dr. Z recently to discuss his favorite missions, the advice he’d give to his successors and the incredible growth of the space community over the past few years.

Comet C/2022 E3 ZTF, just discovered in March 2022, will be making its closest approaches to both Earth and the sun in the coming weeks.

The first full moon of 2023, January’s Wolf Moon, led to some gorgeous imagery around the world.

Space mining has matured to the point where there are dozens of startup companies planning to begin harvesting valuable resources from space.

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a dazzling view of an open cluster of stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud that is slowly dissolving into the dwarf galaxy around it.

A defunct NASA satellite is expected to reenter Earth’s atmosphere on Sunday evening (Jan. 8), but there’s little to fear from the 5,400-pound hunk of space junk.

More rain is on its way to the already drenched western U.S. as forecasters observe two new “atmospheric rivers” form above the Pacific Ocean.

Virgin Orbit’s “Start Me Up” mission is scheduled to lift off Monday (Jan. 9) from Spaceport Cornwall in England on the first-ever orbital launch from the United Kingdom.