Satellite News

On July 3, the Buck Moon full supermoon rose over Earth, and enthusiastic skywatchers were on hand to capture stunning images of the event.

After a year without people, the sky would be bluer, the air clearer. The wind and the rain would scrub clean the surface of the Earth; all the smog and dust that humans make would be gone.

Even during times of conflict on the ground, space has historically been an arena of collaboration among nations. But trends in the past decade suggest the nature of cooperation in space is shifting.

The Hubble Space Telescope has spied on the Milky Way’s galactic neighbor, irregular galaxy ESO 174-1, imaging it as a lonely hazy cloud.

Europe’s workhorse Ariane 5 rocket will launch for the final time today (July 4), and you can watch the historic liftoff live.

A supernova that erupted when a massive star died could have destroyed our infant solar system — if it weren’t protected by a cocoon of molecular gas.

Stunning first videos from a new space-borne instrument designed to improve the monitoring of thunderstorms show the crackle of lightning over Europe, Africa and the Atlantic Ocean.

The Light Bender robotics project from space technology company Maxar will autonomously redirect sunlight to power solar panels in dark regions of the lunar surface.