Satellite News

‘God of Chaos’ asteroid Apophis will make a flyby like no other in recorded history in 2029 as it becomes visible with the naked eye, and NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft will be on hand to supervise.

NASA’s Juno spacecraft will come closer to Jupiter’s moon Io on Dec. 30 than any spacecraft has in 20 years, getting a good look at the solar system’s most volcanic body.

Rocket debris from a recent China satellite launch fell to ground near inhabited areas, where bystanders apparently caught the fiery touchdown on video.

SpaceX ended 2023 with not 1 but 2 rocket launches. Within hours on Dec. 28, it sent a Falcon Heavy rocket loaded with the X-37B space plane, and a Falcon 9 carrying Starlink satellites.

Batteries could charge up by relying on a quantum effect known as indefinite causal order, whereby the laws of cause and effect are scrambled and power can move through the system quicker.

Researchers have mapped the magma plumbing system beneath Tonga’s underwater volcano and discovered three magma chambers, two of which fed the record-shattering 2022 eruption.

The OSIRIS-REx sampling mission, a planetary defense prototype named DART and a spacecraft’s ambitious journey to a metal world are just some of the highlights

This guide to the planets in our solar system will show you what to look out for in the sky in 2024.