Satellite News

If you surfed the web this morning, you may have seen news of the latest existential threat to humanity: a “planet killer” asteroid named 2022 AP7. Luckily for us 2022 AP7 “has no chance to hit the Earth currently”, according to Scott Sheppard at the Carnegie Institution for Science.

The spiral galaxy Messier 99 got the star treatment from two European Southern Observatory instruments.

NASA named 18 space agencies, organizations and individuals who will watch the Orion spacecraft as it flies around the moon, after launching with Artemis 1 no earlier than Nov. 14.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard successfully launched a new rocket capable of sending satellites into orbit on Saturday (Nov. 5).

Our roundup of the best star trackers for astrophotography for wide-field and deep sky imaging.

You can see a Blood Moon total lunar eclipse on Nov. 8, the last until 2025. Here’s how to watch it online for free.

Only a handful of people have ever set foot on the moon. We take a look at this super exclusive club, who they were, and what enabled them to make that incredible journey.

New research indicates that certain areas of the Martian crust have a higher silica content than expected, upending the long-held theory that the crust is uniformly basaltic.