Satellite News

The “China Compound Eye” radar array aims to track and characterize potentially threatening deep-space objects.

A robotic Russian cargo ship stricken by a coolant leak undocked from the International Space Station late Friday (Feb.17) while cosmonauts snapped photos of it looking for signs of damage.

The four largest moons of Jupiter – Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto – have newly discovered auroras that can be seen in visible light.

Leonardo da Vinci’s centuries-old sketches reveal he may have understood key aspects of gravity long before Galileo, Newton and Einstein.

A massive solar flare erupted from the sun on Friday (Feb. 17) as the Earth was under a geomagnetic storm watch from flares earlier in the week.

One of the instruments on NASA’s Parker Solar Probe powered down unexpectedly last weekend, but the mission team expects it to come back online soon.

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has accomplished a great deal during its first two years on the Red Planet, and the mission team has big plans for the future as well.

The comet C/2022 A2 (Pan-STARRS) will pass close by the sun on Sunday (Feb. 19), making its first and likely final approach to our star.