Live updates from the launch of the EUMETSAT MTG-S1 weather satellite for ESA. Liftoff occurred at 5:04 p.m. July 1 from ...

An unexpectedly strong solar storm rocked our planet on April 23, 2023, sparking auroras as far south as southern Texas in ...

Solar flares are the most powerful explosions in the solar system the biggest ones can have as much energy as a billion ...

Proba-3's Coronagraph and Occulter fly in tandom as they loop around the sunward side of Earth, with the Occulter at the precise distance to block the Sun's disk for the camera. (ESA) Now, Proba-3 has ...

In brief: You probably don’t need to check the weather forecast every day, at least for the next few days, as our pattern looks to remain fairly consistent. Houston will see typical temperatures for ...

Astroscale UK has won a £5.15 million satellite contract for the Orpheus space domain awareness mission. This aims to both characterise the ionosphere (the ionised portion of Earth’s upper atmosphere) ...

As described in the Space Warfighting framework released by the U.S. Space Force in April 2025, counterspace capabilities give U.S. military commanders a suite of combat options having attributes that ...

Researchers from the U.K. plan to launch a CubeSat covered with a newly formulated "hull-darkening" Vantablack paint into space next year. If successful, the coating could help mitigate light ...

Once the dust is airborne, it hovers above the desert in a region known as the "Saharan Air Layer" — a roughly 2.5-mile-wide (4 km) band of very dry air that forms around 1 mile (1.6 km) above ...

In a dazzling first, two European spacecraft —flying in millimeter-perfect formation — have created an artificial solar ...

A pair of European satellites have created the first artificial solar eclipses through precise and fancy formation flying.