Satellite News

Hot Jupiters are gas giants so close to their star that the star’s heat and radiation can blow the planets’ atmosphere away.

China launched its secretive reusable space plane into orbit for its third mission on Dec. 14, just one day after the U.S. Space Force took its own X-37B space plane off the launch pad.

The Federal Aviation Administration should evaluate and improve the way it investigates space launch mishaps, according to a new report.

Humpback whale “conversations” provide valuable insight on how humans may one day communicate with life beyond Earth.

Black holes are some of the most powerful objects in the universe — and humans could devise ways to harness that power as an energy source, a new theoretical study claims.

The two small moons of Mars, Phobos (about 22km in diameter) and Deimos (about 13km in diameter), have been puzzling scientists for decades, with their origin remaining a matter of debate.

Scientists are building a ‘beyond state-of-the-art’ digital model of near-Earth space to improve forecasting of solar storms and their effects on infrastructure.

Tonight (Dec. 14), Rocket Lab plans to launch its first mission since a failure this past September, and you can watch the action live.