Satellite News

SpaceX is poised to launch 22 Starlink satellites tonight (Jan. 18) on the company’s second mission of the day, after the Ax-3 private astronaut flight.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida today (Jan. 18), sending four people, including Turkey’s first astronaut, toward the ISS.

The tiny Icelandic town of Grindavík lies under threat from a lava flow, imaged from space by a satellite.

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter recently bounced a laser off India’s Vikram moon lander, marking a space-communications first.

Young galaxies in the early universe adopted elongated shapes as they formed along filaments of the cosmic web, before evolving into more disc-like galaxies.

The MeerKat Radio Telescope discovered an unknown object in the Milky Way heavier than the largest neutron star but lighter than the smallest black holes.

A new examination of a lunar meteorite revealed a mineral that could change our understanding of water on the moon, showing its crust was water-rich around 4 billion years ago.

Japan’s robotic SLIM spacecraft will attempt to pull off the nation’s first-ever moon landing on Friday morning (Jan. 19), and you can watch the action live.