A Japanese spacecraft that once carried over 13,000 Hatsune Miku fan messages and drawings into space has officially ended ...

Fifteen years after launch, JAXA has said goodbye to the spacecraft, our only working probe around Earth's "sister planet".

The simple-to-operate MPT30Ka SOTM achieves high performance with low power consumption within a protective portable dome ...

Japanese space agency, JAXA, lost contact with Akatsuki in April 2024, after the probe entered a low-precision attitude control mode near the end of its operational lifespan.

A coalition of scientists and historians are floating a long-shot plan to retrieve orbiting relics—raising questions about ...

New LANL research team could result in design changes to spacecraft to "harden" them against space environment discharges.

On July 1, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) detected what was first believed to be an asteroid. As calculations for its orbit progressed, it was found to be from outside our ...

I/ATLAS is a fast, ancient interstellar object. Its odd features fuel both scientific study and speculation. On July 1, astronomers detected a strange, fast-moving object racing toward the Sun. Named ...

Orbit Communication Systems Ltd. (TASE: ORBI), a leading global provider of ground, airborne, and maritime SATCOM terminals, tracking ground station solutions, and mission-critical communication ...

China appears to have pulled off not only the first satellite-to-satellite refuelling in geosynchronous orbit, but also the “largest single manoeuvre” ever seen in that orbit, according to a former US ...

ULA's Vulcan is replacing the company's workhorse Atlas 5 rocket and the already-retired Delta 4 family of launchers.