Satellite News

The Eta Aquarid meteor shower peaks on May 5, and this year looks favorable for a good light show put on by bits of Halley’s Comet as they burn up in Earth’s atmosphere.

This special limited engagement of ‘Star Wars: The Phantom Menace’ beginning on May 3 includes an early look at the upcoming Disney+ series ‘The Acolyte.’

Newly emerged sunspot fires off X-class and an M-class solar flares in relatively quick succession. Watch the striking video and read about the possible effects here.

Citizen scientists have spotted a truly remarkable planet in a binary system’s habitable zone. They gave a Harry Potter-inspired nickname.

China continued its run of moon missions today (May 3), launching its bold Chang’e 6 sample-return effort to the lunar far side.

A long, long, time ago in a galaxy far, far away began the ultimate battle of good and evil. Here is the full history of the Sith order.

For National Space Day, SpaceKids Global announces a competition to send eight kids to Florida for an adventure at Blue Origin and NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.

It may have fewer pixels than the screen of a 1989 Game Boy, but the Resolve device on the XRISM space telescope will broaden our view of the cosmos.