Satellite News

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample-return mission will return pieces of asteroid Bennu to Earth on Sept. 24, 2023. Follow the historic landing live here.

NASA is exploring the capabilities of several next-gen humanoid robots that it hopes will one day assist astronauts in orbit and mine the moon for minerals.

The challenges of settling Mars stretch beyond the boundaries of rocket technology, impacting our biology and fundamentally questioning our identity as a species.

An old space shuttle engine that once visited the Hubble Space Telescope was just mounted on the Space Launch System rocket that will launch the Artemis 2 moon mission next year.

The Parker Solar Probe and the Solar Orbiter may have finally solved a solar puzzle that has troubled scientists for decades.

There’s a slight chance Comet Nishimura might brighten unexpectedly. Astronomer Jonti Horner explains what to expect.

SpaceX fired one of its Raptor engines last month to test its ability to land the company’s Starship vehicle on the moon in cold conditions, which it will have to do on the Artemis 3 mission.

2023 summer was Earth’s hottest since global record-keeping of temperatures began in 1880, NASA announced Thursday (Sept. 14).