Satellite News

U.S. President Joe Biden congratulated Intuitive Machines on making the nation’s first moon landing since 1972, calling it “a thrilling step forward in a new era of space exploration.”

New observations by NASA’s Perseverance rover show just how much damage Ingenuity sustained on its final Mars flight.

A zombie star feasting on its surrounding planets and asteroids hasn’t escaped the cannibalistic process unscathed. Resulting debris has given this white dwarf a metal scar.

Japan’s SLIM moon lander started working again on the lunar surface despite extreme heat conditions, the team announced Monday (Feb. 26). It even sent home new imagery.

When NASA’s asteroid-diverting DART mission slammed into the tiny moonlet Dimorphos, it didn’t just shift its orbit — it also almost completely changed its shape, new research suggests.

Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus moon lander was the first private spacecraft to reach the lunar surface. We now have some images of what it sees as well as an update on its fate.

Researchers found and mapped four seamounts in the deep sea off the coast of Peru and Chile. The tallest of these new peaks rises around 1.5 miles above the seafloor.

February’s Full Snow Moon may have been the smallest full moon of 2024, but it had a big impact on moon lovers, skywatchers, and astrophotographers across the globe who braved the cold to catch it.