International Space Station Makes 100,000th Orbit Of Earth
One-hundred-thousand laps around Earth, and the International Space Station is still sailing right along.
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One-hundred-thousand laps around Earth, and the International Space Station is still sailing right along.
Visible just after 7 a.m. on the east coast, the smallest planet will appear as a tiny black dot on the face of the sun, and the transit will last for about 7 1/2 hours
For the second month in a row, the aerospace upstart SpaceX landed a rocket on an ocean platform early Friday, this time following the successful launch of a Japanese communications satellite.
NASA is trying to resuscitate its planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft, in a state of emergency 75 million miles away.
Ah, there's nothing like a blast of fresh, frigid air to welcome you back to the planet after nearly a year cooped up in space. That's the word from astronaut and Texas-resident Scott Kelly.
I guess the phrase 'to infinity, and beyond' really caught on! Apparently, space travel never looked so good. NASA has announced that it received a record number of applicants for its next astronaut class.
As families of the lost Challenger astronauts gather with NASA to mark the space shuttle accident's 30th anniversary, there's a new voice to address the crowd.
Last year wasn't just the Earth's hottest year on record -- it left a century of high temperature marks in the dust. The NOAA and NASA announced Wednesday that 2015 was by far the hottest year in 136 years of record keeping.
A professor at a university in London has put together an animation to show just how much debris is in orbit around our planet, and it has been happening for almost more than 60 years.
The International Space Station accepted its first U.S. shipment in more than half a year early Wednesday, receiving Christmas presents and much-needed groceries for the resident astronauts.
NASA's one-year spaceman, Scott Kelly, ventured back outside of the International Space Station on Friday morning for some radiator work. Kelly is more than halfway through a U.S. record-setting flight.
NASA's yearlong spaceman, Scott Kelly, is taking his first spacewalk just hours before setting a new U.S. flight record.
Just days after NASA announced findings showing water on Mars, "The Martian" soaked up at the box office.
Pluto's big moon, Charon, is being revealed in all of its rugged glory in the best photos of it ever released.
To mark the occasion, Scott Kelly took time out to chat with two cast members from the upcoming movie, "The Martian."
Encouragement poured in from across the nation for a 14-year-old boy whose homemade electronic clock led to his detention and suspension from school, with President Barack Obama, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg
It's official: NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has gotten humanity's first up-close look at Pluto.
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft aimed to get up-close and personal with Pluto on Tuesday, on track to zoom within 7,800 miles of the small icy world left unexplored until now.
Pluto, reveal thyself, and Earthlings, enjoy the show. On Tuesday, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will sweep past Pluto and present the unexplored world in all its icy glory.
An unmanned SpaceX rocket carrying supplies and a first-of-its-kind docking port to the International Space Station broke apart Sunday shortly after liftoff.
During a panel discussion discussing water sources in the universe, NASA Chief Scientist Ellen Stofan stated that she believes humans could come in contact with the first iterations of alien life by the year 2025.
The largest moon in the solar system harbors a salty ocean beneath its icy shell, the latest member to join a growing club of watery moons, NASA said Thursday.
After a nearly eight-year journey, a NASA spacecraft on Friday flawlessly slipped into orbit around Ceres in the first visit to a dwarf planet.
Some Texas students' experiments were destroyed when an unmanned rocket headed to the International Space Station exploded after liftoff in Virginia.
A commercial space station supply ship bound for the International Space Station exploded six seconds after liftoff at a launch site at Wallops Island, Virginia.
