Satellite News

We love this brick-built space-faring raccoon.

Space.com caught up with Inspiration4 crewmember Chris Sembroski to discuss the landmark 2021 SpaceX mission and how it affected him.

A “guest star,” briefly seen in 1181, was created by colliding dead stars.

2024 will be a very good year to watch for the Perseids, because bright moonlight will not interfere.

The European Space Agency’s EarthCARE satellite sent back its first images; they should be able to help scientists better study Earth’s energy balance.

Astroscale’s ADRAS-J spacecraft snapped a striking image of a rocket body floating lifeless above a blue-and-white Earth, with the sun’s glare reflecting off of it.

Joe Engle, the first astronaut to fly in space on two different winged vehicles, has died at the age of 91. Engle’s first flights into space on the X-15 preceded his launching on the space shuttle.

China aims to launch its first planetary defense mission by 2030, to showcase the skills needed to nudge a dangerous asteroid away from Earth.