Satellite News

A comet discovered just months ago will make for an easy-to-spot, if somewhat dim, target for summer skywatchers eager to see a snowball streak through the solar system.

A robotic SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule is scheduled to leave the International Space Station today (June 29), and you can watch the departure live.

In a historic first, astronomers have detected low-frequency gravitational waves using a galaxy-sized antenna of millisecond pulsars in the Milky Way.

Virgin Galactic is ready to launch the first commercial mission of its SpaceShipTwo space plane on Thursday (June 29). Success would be huge for the ambitious company.

The James Webb Space Telescope has seen the starlight from an early galaxy hosting a feeding supermassive black hole for the first time ever.

In 5 billion years, the sun will become a red giant and swallow Earth and nearby planets. New research suggests that some close-in planets can avoid being swallowed by stars during these death throes.

Virgin Galactic’s first commercial spaceflight, a four-passenger mission, is scheduled to launch on Thursday (June 29). How many people can the company’s SpaceShipTwo really carry?

SpaceX and Elon Musk have released mind-blowing photos from the recent test-firing of the company’s latest Starship prototype.