After more than a decade of charting the stars with extraordinary precision, the Gaia spacecraft has completed its mission.

A four-person crew will spend three to five days aboard a SpaceX capsule orbiting above the poles of Earth — a flight path ...

On Saturday (March 29), SpaceX posted photos on X of the Fram2 mission's Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon capsule rolling out ...

Swarms of satellites launched by SpaceX and other companies are disrupting astronomical observations. Here's how scientists ...

ABB has been awarded a contract by L3Harris Technologies, a leading U.S. defense company, to develop and build a high-resolution infrared interferometry system to power L3Harris' next-generation ...

Europe's space agency, ESA, has retired the Gaia satellite after more than nine years of service. Launched in 2013, Gaia ...

Europe's star-mapping Gaia space observatory has entered its retirement orbit, after gathering valuable cosmic data for more ...

The country supports some of the world’s most important satellites. But experts worry about its proximity to Russia.

Wildfires are raging stronger than ever, but Google (GOOGL) just sent its answer into orbit. FireSat, a groundbreaking AI-powered ...

Every three nights, it will produce a map of the entire southern sky filled with ... which draws on a global network of sensors that tracks objects in orbit and issues updates on satellite locations ...

Nearly half of the artificial satellites in orbit carry a payload. Often, these are in the form of sensors for observation, systems like GPS, and other scientific instruments. A small portion, about ...