Satellite News

Astrobotic’s Peregrine moon lander launched today (Jan. 8) with five NASA science payloads aboard. Here’s what the experiments are designed to do.

Astrobotic’s private Peregrine moon lander has suffered an anomaly in space after separating from its Vulcan Centaur rocket early Monday, Jan. 8. The fate of the mission is unclear.

Scientists modeled how black holes and neutron stars form after dying stars collapse, and explained why some get a hard ‘kick’ into interstellar space.

In the pre-dawn hours of Tuesday, Jan. 9, Mercury, Venus and Mars will appear alongside a thin crescent moon in the morning sky.

A rock from Mount Everest, a time capsule from Belgium, a physical ‘meme’ coin and a letter from a private astronaut are now being delivered to the moon’s surface by DHL.

On Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, snows of organic compounds may form glacier-like honeycomb chunks in methane lakes, appearing as floating “magic islands.”

Relive ULA’s Vulcan Centaur debut with these awesome photos. The mission sent the private Peregrine moon lander toward Earth’s nearest neighbor.

Europe will launch two satellites in September which will together form an artificial eclipse to help scientists study the sun.