NASA released images of an interstellar comet flying past Mars, and scientists expressed doubt about the possibility that it ...

While actual satellite collisions are still rare, near misses are becoming more frequent due to the rapid increase in ...

When astronomers first dreamt up the Vera Rubin Observatory in the 1990s, the sky above the Chilean Cerro Pachón, where the star-observing machine was to be located, looked different than it does ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Three satellites created a triangle shape near the Gemini North ...

NASA contracts Katalyst Space Technologies for $30 million to reposition the Swift space telescope and prevent its descent to Earth.

Astronomers in Australia picked up a strange radio signal in June 2024 — one near our planet and so powerful that, for a moment, it outshined everything else in the sky. The ensuing search for its ...

If you look up at the sky on a clear night, shortly after one of SpaceX's many Falcon 9 rocket launches, you might see a bright string of lights zooming across the heavens. But behind these lights ...

Deep in the Appalachian mountains lies a hidden piece of space history. On a nearly 200-acre property tucked into the Pisgah National Forest near Rosman, North Carolina, a 26-mete ...

Transporter-15 will deliver more than 100 satellites into a sun-synchronous orbit, where each will begin its own, ...

In the next few months, from its perch atop a mountain in Chile, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will begin surveying the cosmos with the largest camera ever built. Every three nights, it will produce a ...

The Sun, an ever-burning ball of gas at the center of our solar system, has always fascinated people. But now, scientists are seeing it like never before. Thanks to the most powerful solar telescope ...