Satellite News

To see the Crab Nebula for yourself, you’ll have to wait until around midnight local daylight time, after it has sufficiently risen high enough above the east-northeast horizon.

NASA said the visit was done as a precaution.

A Long March 2C rocket launched three Yaogan-43 spy satellites to orbit from southwestern China on Oct. 22, marking the third liftoff of the mysterious satellite series.

The technology-demonstrating Advanced Composite Solar Sail System has a bent boom in Earth orbit, but NASA says it shouldn’t be a big deal.

NASA’s space shuttle Discovery has been reunited with one of its last crew members. The National Air and Space Museum debuted Robonaut-2 (R2), NASA’s first dexterous humanoid robot flown into space.

The destructive power of asteroids is undeniable — just ask the dinosaurs. New research suggests a huge space rock that struck Earth over 3 billion years ago may have benefitted early life.

A new video shows how Earth’s magnetic field weakened and warped before temporarily flipping during a recent “polar reversal event.”

D’Vana Tendi gets back to her Orion roots in “Star Trek: Lower Decks” season 5’s opening episodes — and her species has a very long history in “Star Trek.”