Satellite News

NASA’s Artemis 2 astronauts are gearing up for their planned 2026 moon launch by photographing an inflatable version of Earth’s nearest neighbor.

While observing the Halley-type comet 12P/Pons-Brooks with ALMA and NASA’s Infrared Telescope Facility, researchers determined that the comet’s water is strikingly similar to the water on Earth.

The FAA has closed its investigation into SpaceX’s Starship failure this spring and given the green light for Starship Flight Test 10 to proceed this weekend.

Portugal’s space ambitions grow as Atlantic Spaceport Consortium secures approval to operate the nation’s first launch center in the mid-Atlantic

Two Chinese astronauts spent more than six hours outside the Tiangong space station on Friday (Aug. 15), installing a debris shield on the third spacewalk of the Shenzhou 20 mission.

Mercury is farthest from the sun in Earth’s morning sky on Aug. 19.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 Starlink satellites launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Monday (Aug. 18). It was the company’s 100th Falcon 9 launch of the year.

A panel of judges has selected the 25 finalists in NASA and Freelancer’s global contest to design a plush “zero-g indicator” to fly to the moon with the agency’s Artemis 2 astronauts.