Satellite streaks block out the Arctic sky | Space photo of the day for June 20, 2025 The Salsa Cluster satellite's reentry on Sept. 8, 2024. The spacecraft is visible as a tiny whitish dot ...

Japan has long been at the forefront of space exploration, from becoming the fourth nation to launch a satellite in 1970 to executing groundbreaking missions like the Hayabusa2 asteroid sample return.

WASHINGTON — The heads of leading U.S. satellite imaging firms are urging Congress to reject proposed budget cuts to commercial remote sensing programs, warning the reductions could undermine ...

Jessica Frick wants to build furnaces in space. Her company, California-based Astral Materials, is designing machines that can grow valuable materials in orbit that could be used in medicine ...

The Vega-C rocket containing the satellite successfully launched into space at 6:16 a.m. Tuesday local time from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, the ESA said.

The world's oldest trees 04:51. Researchers have successfully launched a new satellite that is designed to study the planet's forests and "provide unprecedented insight" into how those regions ...

After more than ten years of development, the European Space Agency (ESA) is preparing to launch a satellite that will map the carbon content of the world’s rainforests.