Satellite News

The best smart telescopes have top-notch tech, user-friendly interfaces and provide stunning views of the night sky — here are our favorite models.

Do the Milky Way’s most common planets, mini-Neptunes, have atmospheres filled with opaque clouds or a more transparent haze?

SpaceX plans to launch 22 more of its Starlink internet satellites at 12:01 a.m. EST (0501 GMT) on Wednesday (Feb. 7).

Budgetary issues have forced the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA’s chief center for robotic planetary exploration, to reduce its workforce by about 8%.

A team of researchers has grown chickpeas in simulated moondust for the first time.

AI continues to prove successful as an important tool for fire weather forecasters, both with thunderstorm prediction and increasing situational awareness for active fires caused by lightning.

Thanks to a powerful engine burn on Feb. 3, NASA’s asteroid-hopping Lucy spacecraft is on its way back to Earth for a Christmas-time rendezvous this year.

SpaceX is targeting Feb. 14 for the launch of Intuitive Machine’s IM-1 mission, which aims to become the first private effort to soft-land on the moon.