Satellite News

The inexplicable entity, which likely had a chemical composition unlike any other known star, was identified by a group of “stellar archaeologists” who traced back the cosmic history of another equally unique star.

As the Mars Ingenuity helicopter continues to soar, an early-stage Red Planet craft is in the works. The first fixed-wing plane on Mars would seek water — and perhaps life.

Scientists have found fingerprints of water in ancient meteorites reminiscent of the planetesimals that formed Earth.

While ambitious plans to return Red Planet samples to Earth are in development, some scientists argue that we should instead find ways to analyze Mars samples on the planet itself.

On Episode 94 of This Week In Space, Tariq and Rod preview the global plans for spaceflight this year.

The home of a sunken Mercury capsule and the spacecraft that brought the Apollo 13 crew back to Earth is getting an upgrade. The Cosmosphere announced it is ready to renovate its Hall of Space.

An RS-25 engine rated for future human moon missions fired up on Jan. 17 for about eight minutes in a key test for NASA’s Artemis program.

Find out what it’s like to experience the polar night while hunting the northern lights along the Norwegian coast with Hurtigruten’s Astronomy Voyage.