Satellite News

“…are we potentially the last generation that will see the night’s sky in its entirety?”

The space telescope spied three young stars in the nebula.

A plume of molten rock deep beneath eastern Africa is pulsing upward in rhythmic surges, slowly splitting the continent and potentially marking the birth of a new ocean, a new study reports.

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.