Satellite News

Skywatchers get to see a second full moon this month on Wednesday (Aug. 30), and it is a special one: A rare unification of a Blue Moon and a “supermoon.”

An instrument aboard the mission’s Pragyan rover has found traces of sulfur within the lunar south pole’s soil.

NASA will discuss the September arrival of asteroid samples collected by its OSIRIS-REx probe during a press conference today (Aug. 30), and you can watch it live.

The U.S. National Science Foundation reported that a cybersecurity incident has temporarily shut down operations at its Gemini North Telescope in Hawaii and Gemini South Telescope in Chile.

Space junk could one day be snatched in orbit with a strong bag, if a new contract to test the technology ends up flying in space.

A rare temperature-sensitive molecule usually found in stars has been discovered in the atmosphere of an exoplanet for the first time, a marshmallow-like hot Jupiter called WASP-31b.

Satellites watched as a temporary city sprang up in the Nevada desert, where the famed Burning Man “radical self-expression” festival kicked off on Monday (Aug. 28).

Weather satellites in orbit above Earth are watching Hurricane Idalia and Hurricane Franklin as they pick up strength in ocean waters off the southern coast of the United States.