Satellite News

China sent a secretive remote-sensing satellite named Horus 1 to orbit on Friday night (Feb. 23) as the country begins to ramp up its launch activity.

NASA astronaut Josh Cassada captured a stunning shot of green auroras dancing in Earth’s skies from his vantage point on the International Space Station.

On Monday (Feb. 27) VMS Eve flew from California’s Mojave Air and Space Port to Spaceport America in New Mexico, the hub of Virgin Galactic’s commercial operations.

A solar storm that swept across Earth on Monday (Feb. 27) forced SpaceX to delay a Starlink launch and temporarily disrupted operations of several Canadian oil rigs.

Two ultra-cool dwarf stars in a binary system are so tight they’re breaking records. The stars are so close that they orbit each other in less than a day.

Japan has selected its first new astronaut candidates in more than 13 years. Makoto Suwa and Ayu Yoneda were chosen by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).

Earth’s next-door neighbor Venus may have a “squishy” outer shell that gives the planet a “youthful” appearance and may reveal how it loses its interior heat, studies reveal.

A quartet of large asteroids are zooming by Earth this week, but they’ll all pass our planet with millions of miles to spare, according to NASA.