Four San Antonio-built satellites on a NASA mission to stare at the sun have opened their eyes and tested their thrusters for the first time. Known as PUNCH, the suitcase-sized craft from ...

In the above animation, the Sun, Jupiter and Saturn are shown orbiting the barycentre of our solar system. The barycentre is ...

For now, ESA’s Proba-3 will prepare for its research campaign—tethered by lasers in a Kubrickian waltz, getting ready to stare straight into the Sun. Constellation ESA Low Earth orbit satellites ...

That is, this NASA sun-studying mission, named PUNCH, is technically made up of four small satellites that are strategically distributed in our planet's orbit. The quartet is designed, however ...

Three satellites from Curtin University’s Binar Space Program burned up in Earth’s atmosphere last week. Aptly named after “fireball” in the Noongar language, the satellites met their end ...

The first bits of data have come back from the trio of small satellites that make up ... You may like NASA's sun-studying PUNCH mission captures its 1st-light images. Everything looks great ...

Experts fear record satellite launches, like SpaceX's Starlink, will worsen the risk of catastrophic failures. The sun’s 22-year Hale cycle adds complexity to its activity. Magnetic bands ...