Satellite News

See newly released concept art for Celestial Park, one of the five “worlds” of the Universal Epic Universe theme park, coming in 2025.

We are a planetary scientist and an astronomer who, with funding and support from NASA’s Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute, have created and published a set of tactile graphics, or graphics with raised and textured elements, on the 2024 total solar eclipse.

An unusual “horned” comet is now visible in the night sky and may even make a rare appearance during the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024.

For millennia, solar eclipses like the upcoming one on April 8 have inspired awe, wonder and fear. Here are some of the most intriguing accounts of solar eclipses from ancient Greece to the Mayan empire.

The stars of a possible ultra-faint dwarf galaxy, known as UMa3/U1, could be held in place by the gravitational glue of dark matter.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe looked into a coronal mass ejection coming from the sun for the first time, detecting some turbulence that has intrigued scientists.

Japan’s proposal for a moon rover is “more than meets the eye.” A new model of JAXA’s Lunar Cruiser not only replicates the Toyota transport, but can also transform into Optimus Prime.

The April 8 solar eclipse doesn’t quite reach totality in my home Canadian city, so I’m hopping on a train to find it. I had good reason to stay off the road, or away from the air.