The University of Minnesota is now using artificial intelligence and satellites to help farmers detect aphid infestations. "They are tiny, little insects, soft-bodied, and they are sap-suckers ...

The moon partially covers the sun during a total solar eclipse, as seen from Eagle Pass, Texas, April 8, 2024. A pair of European satellites rocketed into orbit Dec. 5, 2024 on the first mission ...

Not much can surprise someone who partook in four shuttle missions and three space walks during a 36-year career with NASA.

The newly announced Landolt NASA Space Mission will launch a bread box-size "artificial star" satellite that will mimic stars by shining lasers directly at ground-based telescopes. This will ...

In 1957, the Space Age began with the launch of Sputnik, the first artificial satellite. Since then, the number of objects humans have hurled toward the stars has soared to the thousands. As those ...

NASA is building a satellite that will act as an artificial star in the sky, and it hopes to launch it by 2029. Wed, 28 May 2025 22:01:34 GMT (1748469694782) Story Infinite Scroll ...

This image captures the streak of an Earth-orbiting artificial satellite crossing Hubble’s field of view during an observation of “The Mice” interacting galaxies (NGC 4676).

Artificial satellites can indeed fall back to Earth, and when they do, it can be a dramatic event. Satellites are kept in orbit by a delicate balance between their velocity and Earth’s ...