NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers photographed a rare atmospheric phenomenon over the US and Mexico known as a "sprite" that's ...

A half-century later, ex-NASA astronaut José Hernández said that the view aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery in 2009 turned him into “an instant treehugger. ...

During his three Soyuz flights (2008, 2011, 2016), Sergey Volkov logged 548 days in space. On the first flight, he orbited Earth in the International Space Station with Mark Kelly, husband of ...

I took my son to the Rose Center for Earth and Space at New York’s Museum of Natural History. In the Hayden Planetarium, we watched a simulation of the Milky Way bloom above us, while the actor Pedro ...

There’s such a massive mess of space junk floating around the planet that scientists now say it could ruin their view of the stars. A long-defunct “grandfather” satellite ERS-2 fell to Earth ...

The Long View (2013): The true—and vast—complexity of the universe was captured in this vista recorded by a pair of automated telescopes, one in the U.S. and one in the Chilean desert.

A top JFCC-Space priority is also to prevent space-faring objects from crashing into one other, whether they be U.S. assets or those of other nations. More than 20,000 manmade spaceborne objects are ...

International Space Station Rooms and a view | Space photo of the day for May 6, 2025. Private Spaceflight SpaceX's next private astronaut mission to ISS, Ax-4, to launch May 29 for Axiom Space.

Pearlman is also a contributing writer for Space.com and co-author of "Space Stations: The Art, Science, and Reality of Working in Space” published by Smithsonian Books in 2018.In 2009, he was ...

We’re sick of those fake airbrushed artist’s interpretations of Venusian lightning. Instead, io9 is bringing you RAW UNEDITED pix from space! This photo, issued yesterday by the European ...

World View shared a copy of a letter from the Federal Aviation Administration saying that the company's six passenger, two pilot gondola will qualify as a space vehicle because the conditions at ...

Waking up in a chic hotel room with a view of the solar system could be the future of travel, at least if space company Orbital Assembly has anything to say about it.. The US-based company has ...