Satellite News

A stunning bright-green fireball was captured by a phone camera in a playground in Turkey.

A prototype of a NASA moon rover, called VIPER, slithered down a ramp at an agency lab. The lunar mission will hunt for water ice, which is crucial in helping astronauts during their landing missions set to begin in the mid-2020s or so.

The United States Space and Air Forces launched an unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile 4,200 miles (6,760 km) on Sept. 6 from Vandenberg Space Force in California.

Japan sent two ambitious missions soaring into the heavens today (Sept. 6) — a pioneering moon lander and a powerful X-ray space telescope.

Forecasters are keeping an eye on Tropical Storm Lee, which they predict could soon become a full-blown hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean.

NASA’s Psyche mission is scheduled to launch atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket on Oct. 5 and begin heading toward its metal-asteroid namesake.

An immense bubble of galaxies, one billion light years wide and located 820 million light-years away, could be fossilized remains of the Big Bang.

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter flew for the 57th time on Sept. 3, a sortie that pushed the robot’s total Red Planet air time over 100 minutes.