Satellite News

A new trailer for National Geographic’s celebration of Black astronauts in ‘The Space Race.’

I’m an astronomer who studies and writes about cosmology. Researchers have discovered over 5,600 exoplanets in the past 30 years, and their extraordinary diversity continues to surprise astronomers.

The first Canadian who will fly to the moon, Jeremy Hansen, now has a patch to represent his own mission, as well as the knowledge passed on by his country’s original explorers.

The NASA Perseverance rover recently turned its gaze to the sky to spot a solar eclipse. The asteroid-sized Phobos passed in front of the sun on Feb. 8, from the perspective of Mars.

New evidence that Mars was volcanically active around 4 billion years ago could provide researchers with more places to hunt for signs of ancient life on the Red Planet.

Our universe’s lack of super-Earths or mini-Neptunes could be caused by some planets migrating toward the hearts of their systems early on in their lives.

We take a look at what would happen to the human body if it could travel at the speed of light.

A young star’s extreme outburst could show us the violent conditions that may be experienced by planets, including those of the solar system, as they form in infant systems.