Satellite News

SpaceX aims to launch three Falcon 9 rockets today (March 30) from both coasts in a roughly five-hour span.

The total solar eclipse on April 8 is part of a repeating pattern of eclipses that last visited North America in 1970. Here’s why the same eclipse repeats every 54 years.

New observations provide an intriguing window into what happens when a slumbering black hole awakens to devour a star.

NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore have been training on Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft for years. The team says they’re ready for the first astronaut launch no earlier than May 1.

Cumulus clouds rapidly dissipate as the land surface cools. This isn’t just good news for eclipse chasers on April 8, but also has implications for sun-obscuring geoengineering efforts.

On March 28, Earth was hit by an X-class solar flare that was strong enough to ionize part of the planet’s atmosphere.

Earlier this month, a sudden atmospheric warming event caused the Arctic’s polar vortex to reverse its trajectory. The swirling ring of cold air is now spinning in the wrong direction, which has triggered a record-breaking “ozone spike” and could impact global weather patterns.

Varda Space has written up the results of its groundbreaking W-1 mission, which successfully crystalized the metastable Form III of the antiviral drug ritonavir in space and returned it to Earth.