Scientists in Japan constructed the first satellite made of wood by blending age-old woodworking techniques with rocket science.

LignoSat could help change the way we build satellites. This new spaceflight tech has a very retro feel. The world's first ...

The first satellite in space made mostly of wood arrived at the International Space Station on Tuesday along with other ...

Space exploration often invokes the idea of durable, cutting-edge materials that can withstand extreme environmental challenges. But scientists in Japan suspect we don’t need to abandon one of the ...

Japanese researchers have successfully launched the world’s first wooden satellite, named LignoSat, into space. The satellite was sent on Tuesday aboard a SpaceX mission to the International Space ...

and that’s why we made this wooden satellite.” LignoSat - named after the Latin word for wood - will be released from the space station in the coming weeks. It will orbit for six months ...

Satellite imagery of a key Russian naval base ... only to return a little later. The images, collected by BlackSky in September and obtained by Business Insider, show Russia either partially ...

As the war in Ukraine stretches on, lawyers and human rights groups are increasingly relying on satellite images as consequential evidence in cases brought against the Russians, experts say. The ...

The images below were taken with the the US' S Landsat-8 satellite on Oct. 8 (left) and Oct. 30 (right), before and after the flood. They will help "support rescue and recovery efforts," the ...

Chatham House's John Pollock and Damien Symon reported on new satellite images of Triton Island, part of the Paracels and home to a Chinese military base, earlier this month. The report called ...

Commercial satellite images reveal that North Korea freshly carved at least two large trenches across its heavily armed border with South Korea after it blew up northern sections of unused road ...

Israel's military campaign in southern Lebanon has caused vast destruction in more than a dozen border towns and villages, ...