Satellite News

Regular high-energy pulses of gamma-ray radiation emerging from around the Milky Way’s central black hole may be coming from a blob of matter whipping around at 30% the speed of light.

NASA will train two Indian astronauts, one of whom will fly to the ISS late next year, a space agency official announced this week.

Here we explore whether there are any upcoming asteroid encounters and how NASA and other space agencies actively monitor near-Earth asteroids that have the potential to hit our planet.

Russian cosmonauts on the International Space Station took manual control of an incoming Progress 86 cargo ship on Sunday, Dec. 3, due to an autopilot issue.

Earth will become too hot to handle in a billion years. There’s a (very) remote chance a passing star could save us by knocking our planet back into the habitable zone.

The Zhuque-2 was the first methane-fueled rocket to reach Earth orbit, and the Chinese private spaceflight company Landspace is set to launch it again later on Dec. 5.

After a 4-year delay, the new heavy-lift rocket for Europe is almost ready for space. Ariane 6 should launch for the European Space Agency no earlier than June 15.

A legacy of European-built and operated space modules, which began in Earth orbit and is now heading for the moon, got its start with Spacelab 40 years ago.