Space

News Hour: Russia on Friday launched a European satellite dedicated to monitoring the Earth’s atmosphere, the protective layer that shields the planet from the sun’s radiation, live footage from the cosmodrome showed. The Sentinel-5P orbiter took...

News Hour: Japan’s space agency on Tuesday successfully launched into orbit a fourth and final satellite as part of an overall new system to improve global positioning data for a number of services and systems. An...

News Hour: China launched three remote sensing satellites on Friday on a Long March-2C rocket from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China’s Sichuan Province. The Yaogan-30 01 satellites will conduct electromagnetic probes and other experiments. The...

News Hour: An Ariane 5 rocket carrying two commercial satellites aborted its launch in the final countdown as the main engine was being ignited for liftoff on Tuesday from the Kourou Space Centre in French Guiana....

News Hour: Two high-intensity solar flares were emitted Wednesday, the second of which was the most intense recorded since the start of this solar cycle in December 2008, NASA said. These radiation flares, which can disrupt...

News Hour: A record-shattering NASA astronaut touched down to Earth on Sunday, finishing a 288-day mission that put her over the top as the American who has spent the most cumulative amount of time in space....

News Hour: The first total solar eclipse to sweep North America in nearly a century will march across the continent August 21, casting a shadow over millions of people from coast to coast. The event, coined...

News Hour: Some very “peculiar signals” have been noticed coming from a star just 11 light-years away, scientists in Puerto Rico said. The mystery has gripped the internet as speculation mounts about the potential for a...

News Hour: NASA on Wednesday released a series of stunning images of a raging storm on Jupiter, known as the Great Red Spot, snapped earlier this week as an unmanned probe zipped by. The US space...

News Hour: SpaceX on Wednesday deployed a broadband communications satellite for IntelSat, after twice ditching launch plans in the final seconds before liftoff earlier this week. The satellite, known as IntelSat 35e, soared into the blue...