Satellite News

EIRSAT-1, a student-led gamma-ray astronomy cubesat, is due to launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at the end of November.

Astronomers have found the most distant Milky Way look-alike we’ve seen the universe, challenging theoretical predictions of galaxy evolution.

Astronomers using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have identified eight new super-Earths that orbit close to their host stars.

Water vapor observed sublimating from tiny chunks of rock within planet-forming disks is a sign that a process called “pebble accretion” kickstarts the birth of new worlds.

SpaceX will launch its next robotic cargo mission to the International Space Station on Thursday night (Nov. 9), and you can watch the action live.

Researchers searching for evidence of extraterrestrial life are investigating the geological faults of Saturn’s largest icy moon, Titan, and Jupiter’s largest moon, Ganymede.

The Orion for Artemis 2, humanity’s first lunar mission in 50 years, powered on successfully on Nov. 6. It will carry four astronauts around the moon no earlier than 2024.

India’s newly launched Aditya-L1 sun-studying mission has already captured its first glimpse of a solar flare in high-energy X-rays.