Satellite News

The Ancient Romans constructed hundreds of forts near their eastern borders in modern-day Syria and Iraq. Declassified spy satellite imagery spotted the forts and may shed light on the battlements’ purpose.

A Long March 2F rocket lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert today (Oct. 25), carrying the Shenzhou 17 spacecraft and its crew into orbit.

Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub got an up-close view of a coolant leak flowing from an external radiator while conducting a spacewalk outside of the International Space Station.

A new climate report finds humanity is pushing Earth’s systems into “dangerous instability.”

Watch the partial lunar eclipse on Oct. 28 live here on Space.com. We’ve also rounded up some of the best livestreams for watching the moon enter Earth’s shadow.

Images released by the European Southern Observatory may reveal why Betelgeuse dimmed in 2019.

A best-case projection that meets ambitious Paris Accord targets suggests the West Antarctic Ice Sheet will melt three times faster in the 21st century than it did in the 20th.

Scientists used the new Owens Valley Radio Observatory Long Wavelength Array (OVRO-LWA) in California to capture radio images of October’s annular eclipse.