Satellite News

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has closed the investigation into the second test flight of SpaceX’s huge Starship vehicle, which ended with a bang on Nov. 18.

Intuitive Machines just made the first U.S. landing on the moon in 52 years. NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson says the daring mission will help Artemis lunar crews later in the 2020s.

U.S. President Joe Biden congratulated Intuitive Machines on making the nation’s first moon landing since 1972, calling it “a thrilling step forward in a new era of space exploration.”

New observations by NASA’s Perseverance rover show just how much damage Ingenuity sustained on its final Mars flight.

A zombie star feasting on its surrounding planets and asteroids hasn’t escaped the cannibalistic process unscathed. Resulting debris has given this white dwarf a metal scar.

Japan’s SLIM moon lander started working again on the lunar surface despite extreme heat conditions, the team announced Monday (Feb. 26). It even sent home new imagery.

When NASA’s asteroid-diverting DART mission slammed into the tiny moonlet Dimorphos, it didn’t just shift its orbit — it also almost completely changed its shape, new research suggests.

Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus moon lander was the first private spacecraft to reach the lunar surface. We now have some images of what it sees as well as an update on its fate.