Satellite News

By using protons to probe how a magnetic field responds to an expanding plasma, experimenters have replicated the particle jets spewed out by active black holes.

Europe’s Vega small-satellite launcher is scheduled to fly its final mission tonight (Sept. 3), and you can watch the swan song live.

A long-sought invisible electrical field wrapped around Earth has been detected more than half a century after it was first predicted to exist.

NASA is considering pulling a pair of shelved spacecraft out of storage to spy on notorious asteroid Apophis ahead of its April 2029 Earth flyby.

A statue of Christa McAuliffe, NASA’s “Teacher-in-Space” who died on board the space shuttle Challenger in 1986, has been unveiled in New Hampshire, the state where she taught.

NASA missions are some of the most technologically advanced and critically important endeavors but they are at risk from hackers.

Every so often, astronomers detect a supernova explosion that’s 100 times brighter than it should be. A new paper may reveal the strange source of these “superluminous” supernovas.

A tiny fraction of known black holes emit X-ray signals that resemble a human “heartbeat.” Now, new research may finally explain the strange phenomenon.