Satellite News

MethaneSAT, the first satellite made by an environmental nonprofit organization, was designed to monitor some of the world’s largest industrial contributors of greenhouse gas emissions. Now, without power, the spacecraft’s mission has abruptly ended.

As the sun grew hotter, so did Mars, prompting much of its atmospheric carbon dioxide to rain out and ultimately get locked up in rocks.

Some planets take the expression “you’re your own worst enemy” to the extreme — triggering stellar flares from their own parent stars by being too clingy.

Space.com sat down recently with retired NASA astronaut Terry Virts to talk about space, politics and his run in Texas for a seat in the U.S. Senate.

SpaceX launch 27 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit on the 500th Falcon 9 rocket launch in the company’s history.

Our Red Planet explorers may encounter a peculiar threat.

Auroras may be visible from Alaska to New York as an incoming solar storm could spark geomagnetic storm conditions overnight.

Astronomers have discovered the first evidence of a white dwarf wiped out by a double-detonation supernova, also providing space-lovers with stunning eye-candy.