Satellite News

SpaceX’s new Starlink satellites are so radio noisy that they could blind radio astronomy observatories to the universe’s most intriguing phenomena, scientists say.

The James Webb Space Telescope has imaged a collision between two galaxies that appears to have created a beaming smile in space.

China’s Chang’e 4 rover Yutu 2 has been working on the far side of the moon for nearly six years. It was designed to operate for just three lunar days, or about three Earth months.

The BepiColombo probe’s flybys of Mercury have revealed just how sharply and rapidly the planet’s local environment changes in response to the solar wind.

Satellite tracker and photographer Felix Schöfbänker has captured a variety of secret spacecraft on camera, revealing “things that either were not known, or only were speculated before.”

Rocket Lab’s Electron vehicle appeared to fire up briefly today (Sept. 18) before shutting down, resulting in a launch abort.

Though they may never shed the label, the women who worked for NASA as human computers during the space race are no longer “hidden figures,” and they now have Congressional Gold Medals to prove it.

Paramount’s new all-CG animated ‘Transformers’ film delivers a dynamic origin story for the shapeshifting robots from outer space.