Longtime NASA astronaut Don Pettit is set to return from his fourth trip to space on Saturday night. Here are some of his ...

Pointing to ongoing threats to manatees, a U.S. district judge Friday said the state has violated the federal Endangered ...

A new image has emerged of the Red Planet rising above the lunar limb after being occulted by the moon in January.

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Why it's so special: The Milky Way often appears as a reddish, pinkish and bluish-white arc across the night sky, but this new super-long exposure image from South Africa's ground-based MeerKAT ...

Ask any astronaut about the pleasures of spending time aboard the International Space Station (ISS) and one of the responses will surely be the incredible views that they get to enjoy from 250 ...

Four space tourists, including an Australian polar adventurer, have safely splashed down in the Pacific Ocean after a privately-funded space tour. The quartet travelled in a circular orbit ...

Need more space on your iPhone so you can shoot high-res art photos without worrying about running out of storage? Smart move, those detailed shots eat up a lot of space fast. But how do you free up ...

The seeds will be grown for multiple generations post-mission to analyze genetic changes, helping to understand how crops can be grown in space for future missions. Isro is sending six experiments to ...

Here are some of the spectacular photos taken by intrepid eclipse ... Lebel at Baie-Comeau on the St. Lawrence River, which also gave us a sea horizon in the direction of the eclipse-rise." ...

The mission, set to lift off on Monday evening, will use a Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft to send four civilians into a polar orbit, in what will be a first for a human spaceflight ...