Starliner astronauts return to Earth after 286 days in space
Starliner astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams joined Crew 9 commander Nick Hague and cosmonaut Alexander Gorbunov for their long-awaited return to Earth.
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Starliner astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams joined Crew 9 commander Nick Hague and cosmonaut Alexander Gorbunov for their long-awaited return to Earth.
With a replacement crew on board the space station, NASA is eyeing Tuesday for the Starliner astronauts' return to Earth, finally ending their marathon mission.
Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus could be visible, but not all can be seen by the naked eye.
By switching the next space station crew to a different ferry ship, the Starliner astronauts will get home a bit earlier than planned.
A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient water world.
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have been stuck in space for months longer than expected, and will not return to Earth until at least March 2025 at the earliest, NASA indicated.
The Crew Dragon splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico a month later than planned, setting a SpaceX endurance record in the process.
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.
The September Harvest Moon will see a partial lunar eclipse, peaking the night of Tuesday, Sept. 17.
Along with the first private-sector spacewalk, the SpaceX Polaris Dawn crew also will set a new Earth-orbit altitude record.
The Starliner's two-person crew now will stay in space until next February and return to Earth aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon.
August's full moon, a rare blue moon and supermoon, is lighting up the night sky this week. Here's what time it peaks and where you should look.
The full moon, also known as the Thunder Moon, will last three days, peaking on Sunday morning.
A dramatic cosmic explosion is expected this summer. NASA says the event will be visible to even the naked eye.
The Starliner's launch was picture-perfect, but additional helium leaks were detected, triggering another round of troubleshooting.
The visualization, produced on a NASA supercomputer, allows users to experience flight towards a supermassive black hole.
Astronomy fans figuring out where and what time to see the April 8, 2024, total solar eclipse could check out maps showing the path of totality.
The moon will shroud parts of North America in darkness when the total solar eclipse happens today, April 8. Here's what causes the phenomenon and why.
The total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024, will be the last one to be visible from the contiguous U.S. until 2044.
Intuitive Machines's Odysseus lunar lander became the first privately-built spacecraft to safely complete a moon landing.
Living long past its design lifetime, the Ingenuity helicopter was finally done in by rotor damage during a presumed off-kilter landing.
The dazzling green tree with seemingly sparkling blue and white lights was found in the Milky Way and is a formation of young stars – some bigger than the sun.
"It's astounding how this thing actually is sitting in place already with its galaxy so early on in the universe," said one of the study's authors.
The asteroid Psyche may be a sample of planetary core material left over from the birth of the solar system 4.5 billion years ago.
A rare "ring of fire" solar eclipse will move across the U.S. on Saturday. NASA shared a viewing map and timeline.
