Satellite News

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have found a “first of its kind” world, an exoplanet that is twice the size of Earth and has an atmosphere packed with steam.

The U.S. military’s X-37B space plane is about to begin a series of novel maneuvers, according to a rare official update on the spacecraft.

Nabta Playa in Egypt is an ancient stone circle that researchers suspect was used to determine the summer solstice, which signaled rain was on the way.

A powerful geomagnetic storm illuminated auroras that lit the skies over Earth on Thursday (Oct. 9) after X 2 solar flare that erupted from the sunspot AR 3848 on Tuesday (Oct. 8) evening.

Recently, an international team took the HULC moon camera out for a test drive in lunar-like conditions to improve the camera’s design for Artemis moon missions.

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and New Horizons Pluto probe have teamed up to image the ice giant Uranus, which will help inform future direct imaging of exoplanets.

There’s too much antimatter in cosmic rays, showers of charged particles that pelt Earth. Could this be explained by annihilating dark matter? If so, does it point to the existence of WIMPs?

Using the Gaia space telescope, astronomers have observed 55 massive stars ejected from their home star cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud at speeds equivalent to 80 times the speed of sound.