Satellite News

NASA’s tiny Ingenuity helicopter flew for the 40th time on Mars Thursday (Jan. 19), covering about 584 feet (178 meters) of ground during a 92-second sortie.

The James Webb Space Telescope has for the first time peered inside a planet-forming disk of dust surrounding a nearby star, a development promising to supercharge the search for exoplanets.

Tiny but bright flashes in the sun’s corona that precede solar flares could help astronomers predict when the next one might occur.

The conjunction of Venus and Saturn will be livestreamed so astronomy fans can watch it from the comfort of their homes without having to brave the bitter cold of a January evening.

After years of conflict, a Hawaiian mountain that’s home to some of the most important astronomical observatories on Earth finds itself at peace.

SpaceX’s sixth contracted astronaut flight to the International Space Station for NASA will launch on Feb. 26, if all goes according to plan.

The first U.S. rocket stage to be recovered after its launch, an artifact from Gemini 5, has landed at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Museum, not far from where it lifted off almost 60 years ago.

Here we look at what leptons are, how they fit in the Standard Model of particle physics, and their importance in atoms and particle decay.