Satellite News

NASA’s Starliner astronauts will temporarily have an emergency spot available on a SpaceX Crew Dragon, but they can’t wear spacesuits there. That will change in a few weeks.

Meet Phaethon, a “rock comet” that blurs the definitions between asteroid and comet, and learn why it will be worth paying attention to this fascinating object in the coming years.

The reddish structures of our neighboring galaxy glow brightly in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope.

Although officially known as the celestial archer, the zodiacal constellation of Sagittarius is far better recognized as a teapot. Here’s how to see it this season.

A new video from an astronaut’s vantage point in space captures a bright green burst over Earth as a meteor exploded in the night sky.

To commemorate the 25th anniversary of NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, scientists have rereleased new “sonified” images of nearby objects, including the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A.

Energy-packed plasma waves pump enough energy into streams of solar wind to propel them to their unexpectedly high speeds, observations by two sun-studying spacecraft suggest.

Starliner’s astronauts will spend at least 8 months in space, longer than a typical ISS crew. But numerous other astronauts have safely spent a year on the ISS, or even longer.