Satellite News

The Celestron NexStar 130 SLT, a portable computerized telescope, is now the lowest price we’ve seen in nearly two years ahead of Black Friday.

To see the Crab Nebula for yourself, you’ll have to wait until around midnight local daylight time, after it has sufficiently risen high enough above the east-northeast horizon.

A Long March 2C rocket launched three Yaogan-43 spy satellites to orbit from southwestern China on Oct. 22, marking the third liftoff of the mysterious satellite series.

NASA said the visit was done as a precaution.

The technology-demonstrating Advanced Composite Solar Sail System has a bent boom in Earth orbit, but NASA says it shouldn’t be a big deal.

NASA’s space shuttle Discovery has been reunited with one of its last crew members. The National Air and Space Museum debuted Robonaut-2 (R2), NASA’s first dexterous humanoid robot flown into space.

The destructive power of asteroids is undeniable — just ask the dinosaurs. New research suggests a huge space rock that struck Earth over 3 billion years ago may have benefitted early life.

A new video shows how Earth’s magnetic field weakened and warped before temporarily flipping during a recent “polar reversal event.”