Satellite News

From long-awaited rocket launches and lunar landers to crewed flights around the moon, here are a few exciting spaceflight missions to look forward to in 2024.

2023 was another eventful year for our planet, delivering broken climate records, unprecedented weather disasters and worrisome studies.

11 of the biggest stories about the smallest particles from 2023.

Arriving in orbit on Christmas Day, Japan’s lunar lander SLIM has beamed images of the lunar surface home ahead of its planned touchdown on the moon on Jan. 19.

Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander was stacked on the rocket that will launch it to space, with final checks and fueling now completed.

For decades, measurements of the universe’s expansion have suggested a disparity, which threatens to break cosmology as we know it. The James Webb Space Telescope is looking at it.

The first commercial rocket to launch astronauts has met its end after being destroyed during its latest post-flight recovery. The SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage tipped over after a record 19th flight.

The final full moon of 2023, the Cold Moon, rose on Dec. 26. Skywatchers around the globe were primed and ready to capture some fantastic images of the fully illuminated lunar face.