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Wendy Freedman and her team have been able to measure the expansion of our universe, leading to more insights into the cosmos.
Don Pettit and his two cosmonaut crewmates plunged back to Earth this morning after a 220-day expedition. Pettit celebrated his 70th birthday on Saturday.
NASA says it will be active through April 26, with five or six meteors an hour visible when the sky is dark, especially in dark locations away from city lights.
King will be part of the all-female mission featuring pop star Katy Perry and former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe.
The aerospace engineer is part of the historic all-female crew blasting off on a Blue-Origin rocket on April 14.
NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are back on solid ground after splash-landing in Tuesday afternoon.
Starliner astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams joined Crew 9 commander Nick Hague and cosmonaut Alexander Gorbunov for their long-awaited return to Earth.
Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore splash landed Tuesday after 286 days in space. This is a CBS News special report on their return.
Two NASA astronauts who have been stranded in space for more than nine months are on their way home. A SpaceX capsule undocked from the International Space Station overnight, carrying with it Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore.
The replacements for stranded astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams arrived early Sunday morning. NASA says Williams and Wilmore will return home next week after nine months in space.
The Space X Crew-10 was supposed to launch Wednesday night but a hydraulic system issue on a ground support clam arm stopped that.
Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus could be visible, but not all can be seen by the naked eye.
"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," the European Space Agency said.
Astronomers will use the Webb telescope to closely monitor the size and trajectory of an asteroid that has a slim chance of hitting Earth in 2032.
New research in the journal Nature indicates the moon is older than once believed. Meanwhile, NASA just released some pictures from space that look holiday festive—albeit, of course, unintentionally.
During a talk with students at Tennessee Tech University, astronaut Butch Wilmore was asking how he cast his ballot.
NASA scientists discovered a hole that opens each year, which is the seventh smallest since it began recovering in 1992.
NASA has launched its largest spacecraft ever built for a planetary mission, hoping to give us an idea about the possibility of life outside of Earth. The Europa Clipper has started a 1.8 billion mile journey to Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons, and one of the most promising places fit for life in the Solar System.
The ambitious mission won't actually look for life on Jupiter's moon Europa, but it should find out if the presumed ocean provides a habitable environment.
Crew Dragon's two astronauts will join two Starliner fliers for a five-month tour of duty aboard the International Space Station.
Three crew members, including NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson, undocked from the international space station Monday morning to head back to Earth. Flight engineer Dyson spent about six months aboard the ISS.
The 10 images were taken from six different observation programs to create the photo.
The September Harvest Moon will see a partial lunar eclipse, peaking the night of Tuesday, Sept. 17.
Splashdown northwest of Key West, Florida, closed out a mission highlighted by the first non-government civilian spacewalk.
The agency says it's newest spacecraft, the Europa Clipper, will launch next month to explore one of Jupiter’s moons.
