Satellite News

High-speed winds on exoplanet WASP-17b may align quartz crystals in its atmosphere and create dazzling light effects like “sun dogs.”

SpaceX performed a single-engine “static fire” trial with its newest Starship spacecraft on Thursday (July 31), to help prep the vehicle for an upcoming test flight.

New research suggests that primordial black holes could have played an important role in the formation of the universe’s first stars, but did they help or hinder?

Complex organic molecules that could be the precursors to the building blocks of life as we know it have been discovered in a disk of gas and dust swirling around an infant star.

A new version of the famous double-slit experiment showed that it’s impossible to measure light as both a wave and a particle at the same time, thanks to quantum physics’ uncertainty principle.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 19 Starlink satellites from California’s central coast today (July 31), then came back to Earth for a landing on a ship at sea.

A hidden lake beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet unexpectedly drained more than a decade ago, fracturing the ice surface and forming a large crater — an event only recently uncovered by Earth-observing satellites.

SpaceX scrubbed the launch of its Crew-11 astronaut mission for NASA just a minute before liftoff today (July 31) after clouds intruded.