Florida's Space Coast — home of NASA's Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station — is the reigning rocket ...

Lunar exploration is entering a new era. Long after the Apollo missions, a renewed international interest comes with ...

China’s Tianwen-2 mission has launched to explore an asteroid that may be a piece of the moon, as well as an active asteroid ...

The robotic Tianwen-2 spacecraft will collect samples from Kamoʻoalewa, which some scientists suspect is a fragment of the moon.

A US startup is looking to our closest satellite to fill a resources gap here on Earth. Helium-3 is rare on terra firma, but ...

The optical illusion occurs because people are used to interpreting shadows as coming from an overhead light source. But that's not necessarily the orientation of spacecraft. In many satellite photos, ...

Resilience launched on Jan. 15 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that also carried another private moon lander: Firefly ...

Two new studies used gravity data to pull back the curtain on the deep interiors of the Moon and one of the solar system’s largest asteroids.

Experts agree China is a valid threat to NASA's return to the moon plans. Here's why there is a rush to get SLS off the ...

Abstract: The McDonald Laser Ranging Station (MLRS) is a dualpurpose nstallation designed to obtain observations from both artificial satellite and lunar. targets. It was originally constructed to ...

MCLEAN, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Intelsat and Cubic³ have successfully completed a critical vehicle satellite connectivity test, marking a significant milestone in their joint mission to create a ...

Ordinarily, satellite speed is gauged either by ground-based tracking stations using technologies such as radar and field of view sensors, or by GPS modules onboard the spacecraft themselves.