Every 13-15 years, Saturn is angled in a way in which the edge of its thin rings are oriented toward Earth – effectively ...

Most of humanity’s knowledge about Uranus came from a 1986 Voyager 2 flyby on “a particularly windy day.” A new study says ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Spectrum Advanced Manufacturing Technologies announced an agreement Nov. 26 to manufacture satellites and components for D-Orbit USA. D-Orbit USA, formed by Italian space ...

Rocket Lab launched five "Internet of Things" (IoT) satellites to orbit on Sunday night (Nov. 24), continuing to build out a constellation for the French company Kinéis. An Electron launcher ...

Falcon-9 put the GSAT-N2 to a geosynchronous transfer orbit. This is India’s first collaboration with Elon Musk’s SpaceX. It is a Ka-band high-throughput communication satellite of ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. On Nov. 27, 1885, an astronomer made the first known photograph of a meteor. The picture ...

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Nov. 13, 2024 — An asteroid struck Mars 11 million years ago and sent pieces of the red planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks of Mars eventually crashed into the Earth and is one of ...