From the lunar landing to the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, here are some bold space missions in history.

Satellites are increasingly a global-communications lifeline, allowing people in remote areas, even war zones, to make phone calls and get online without the need for ground-based infrastructure.

Deaths of nearby massive stars may have played a significant role in triggering at least two mass extinction events in ...

More than 58 years have passed since Sputnik 1 became the first artificial satellite to orbit Earth. Launched by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957, Sputnik 1 consisted of a 23-inch-diameter ...

In January more than 100 communications satellites burned up in Earth’s atmosphere, vaporising as they crashed towards the planet at about eight kilometres a second. These spectacular exits are ...

WALL -- Tyrone Laws stood in a room at the InfoAge Science and History Museums on the site of Camp Evans, gazed at the year-old exhibit featuring the contributions of Black scientists at the ...

Did you ever hear of a satellite called Parcae (pronounced like park-eye)? If you haven’t, don’t feel bad—it was, after all, a top-secret project only revealed in July 2023. [Ivan Amato] not ...

The Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket together with the Fregat booster has delivered to orbit the Kanopus-V-IK satellite and 72 associated small satellites MOSCOW, July 14. /TASS/. The Soyuz-2.1a carrier ...

The SPHEREx telescope will create the most colorful map of the cosmos, while the four satellites of the PUNCH mission track the evolution of the solar wind in three dimensions. transcript A SpaceX ...