Satellite News

We’ve all heard the “Twelve Days of Christmas,” but for those with a passion for space, let’s sing along to the “12 space patches of Christmas” designed by an artist to the real stars, Tim Gagnon.

Six years after the first satellite was launched, editors from the Encyclopaedia Britannica posed a question to five eminent thinkers of the day: “Has man’s conquest of space increased or diminished his stature?”

The moon and Jupiter will meet-up with Jupiter for one last time in 2023 on Friday (Dec. 22), with the two bodies making a close approach to each other in the sky as they reach conjunction.

The annual December meteor shower, the Ursids, peaks overnight on Dec. 22, allowing skywatchers willing to brave the cold the chance to spot meteors streaking through the sky ahead of Santa Claus.

A Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo spacecraft will depart the International Space Station on Friday morning (Dec. 22). You can watch the action live, for free.

A festive image from the Very Large Telescope shows the clouds of the ‘Running Chicken Nebula’ looking like a turkey fleeing a cosmic Christmas dinner.

Chinese launch startup Landspace appears ready to test launching and landing rockets from China’s Gobi Desert.

A first teaser trailer for Adam Sandler’s new Netflix sci-fi film, “Spaceman,” slated to touch down on March 1, 2024.