Satellite News

Three Chinese astronauts are set to return to Earth tonight after a five-month stay at the Tiangong space station, and you can watch it live.

Collisions between neutron stars are the most powerful and violent events in the known universe. Would life on Earth survive a kilonova event?

After analyzing some New Horizons images of Pluto, scientists found a supervolcano likely erupted on the planet as recently as a few million years ago.

China’s Shenzhou 16 astronauts have been growing vegetables aboard the Tiangong space station, as part of plans for future deep space exploration.

NASA’s Juno mission captured a new image of Jupiter’s far northern region, where the swirling cloud tops and turbulent storms resemble an eerie, elongated face.

Large amounts of dust are being expelled from the Uranus system to settle in the ecliptic plane and contribute to the zodiacal light, a new study suggests.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is set to launch 23 Starlink internet satellites from Florida tonight (Oct. 29), on the second of two planned missions for the day.

I use Moon and Mars rocks in my teaching and have a modest collection of meteorites. I marvel at the fact that I can hold in my hand something that is billions of years old from billions of miles away.