NASA's Lucy will venture as close as 596 miles to this asteroid, an estimated 2 ½ miles in length but much shorter in width. Scientists should have a better idea of its size and shape following the ...

Northrop Grumman’s MEV-1 completes its five-year mission with IS-901, marking a milestone in commercial satellite servicing.

NASA and partners are building the first quantum gravity sensor for space, a breakthrough instrument that uses ultra-cold ...

The Biomass mission will use a long-forbidden part of the radio spectrum to see how much carbon forests capture.

Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have discovered a truly bizarre planet — one that orbits two stars at a perfect 90-degree angle. This “polar planet” circles a rare eclipsing pair of brown ...

The NISAR satellite uses dual-frequency radar for unprecedented Earth observation, aiding climate change research & disaster ...

The program would support China's future lunar exploration mission, including providing space-based inter-satellite ...

Onboard the International Space Station (ISS), the Extant Life Volumetric Imaging System, dubbed ELVIS, is not about ...

We've deployed so many satellites into space over the last few decades that we now have a massive orbital junk problem. The ...

The U.S. Space Force is an extension of the Air Force responsible for protecting U.S. satellites and tracking foreign objects ...

China has launched the world's first geosynchronous radar imaging satellite, marking a major leap in space-based surveillance ...

The 23 satellites from the Starlink company, owned by SpaceX, will be heading to low-Earth orbit to join the thousands already there. Once deployed and in their orbit, they will provide internet ...