Satellite News

A British startup plans to supply solar power from space to Icelanders by 2030, in what could be the world’s first demonstration of the novel renewable energy source.

Launch startup Astra has secured a contract with the US military, worth up to $44 million, to continue developing its new Rocket 4 vehicle.

Saturn has finally joined the solar system’s other giant planets in possessing a Trojan asteroid, but it may have stolen it. The bouncing asteroid seems to have originated in the Kuiper belt.

SpaceX plans to launch a batch of spy satellites for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office today (Oct. 24) on the 100th Falcon 9 flight of the year.

SpaceX is getting ready for the next launch of Starship and its rocket, Super Heavy. The rocket is now poised at Starbase in south Texas for preflight testing.

Matt Groening, John DiMaggio. and Billy West led a spirited ‘Futurama’ celebration at New York City Comic Con this year to celebrate the upcoming 13th season of Futurama.

While some are hoping for a bright “Halloween comet,” astronomers say the speeding cosmic snowball has likely already broken apart.

A fireball lit up the skies over Lake Erie on Monday (Oct. 21) evening, eliciting hundreds of witness reports to the American Meteor Society.