Elysium customers receive a smartphone application they can share with family and friends to track the cubesat, which is expected to remain in a sun-synchronous low-Earth orbit for about two years.

Engineers have until the middle of January to fix the propulsion system on the LunaH-Map spacecraft so it can make it into lunar orbit and carry out its planned mission. Credit: Arizona State Univ.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has taken a major step toward one of the most ambitious planetary defense missions ever ...

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. The Les Makes ...

Artist's concept of the Lunar IceCube spacecraft searching for water from lunar orbit. (Morehead State University) A spacecraft the size of a cereal box will soon be hunting for water on the moon.

A multidisciplinary team of undergraduate students from three different universities has designed and built a mini satellite, known as a CubeSat, that will launch into space to gather data in ...

This article is part of The State of Science, a series featuring science stories from public radio stations across the United States. This story, by Michelle Loxton, was originally published by KCLU.