Satellite News

Data from NASA’s Kepler telescope shows why puffy sub-Neptunes are shrinking to rocky super-Earths.

The “Demon Star” of Algol gets eclipsed this week by one of its stellar siblings. Here’s what you need to know.

Astronauts on the International Space Station harmlessly lost a tool bag during a spacewalk on Nov. 1. A new telescope image from Rome shows the stray bag shining among the stars.

The rocket body that slammed into the moon in March 2022 was part of the Long March 3C that launched China’s Chang’e 5-T1 mission in 2014, a new study finds.

SpaceX delayed its second test flight of a Starship rocket and Super Heavy booster to no earlier than Saturday (Nov. 18), to replace a rocket part.

The magnolia wood LignoSat is an attempt to make space junk biodegradable. NASA and Japan’s space agency (JAXA) could launch it as soon as 2024.

Jupiter’s moon Io, the most volcanically active world in the solar system, may possess a global ocean of magma underneath its surface, as well as mysteriously warm poles, a new study finds.

The rocky exoplanet LTT 1445Ac, located about 22.5 light years away, has been observed transiting its star by the Hubble Space Telescope.