Space

With millions set to watch the solar eclipse on Monday, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is deploying two jet airplanes to follow the celestial phenomenon as it tracks across the continent. The scientists at NASA hope the telescopes installed on the two WB-57F jet planes will record the clearest images ever of the sun’s […]

Communities across the United States are celebrating on a large scale as the countdown is on for when the 2017 solar eclipse turns day into night.  While a partial eclipse will be visible for large regions from coast to coast, 11 states fall in the direct path of the total eclipse as it travels across […]

The largest asteroid ever tracked by NASA will zoom nearby the planet Earth on Sept. 1, providing astronomy fans a rare treat shortly after the upcoming solar eclipse on Monday, Aug. 21. NASA estimates asteroid Florence to measure about 2.7 miles wide. Although it will not be the closest asteroid to pass near Earth, it […]

The International Space Station (ISS) just doubled its manpower with the arrival of three new crew members on July 28. The astronauts are from the United States, Russia, and Italy. After a six-hour spaceflight from the Baikonur Cosmodrome launchpad in Kazakhstan, NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik, Russian Sergey Ryazanskiy, and Italian Paolo Nespoli of the European Space […]

NASA launched a rocket Thursday, June 29 from their Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia to create colored clouds. The red and blue-green clouds will be used to study a number of things, such as particle motion. They will also test the rocket’s ejection system, and improve researchers’ understanding of the ionosphere and aurora. The artificial […]

At 5:30 a.m. EDT, a 36-foot rocket with a 667-pound payload carrying experiments by middle school to college students and instructors launched at Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on Thursday, June 22. NASA’s Terrier-Improved Orion suborbital rocket was set to fly to nearly 73 miles altitude before parachuting into the Atlantic Ocean where it will […]

NASA’s Hubble Telescope has captured some of the universe’s brightest infrared galaxies on camera, thanks to some closer galaxies that act like magnifying glasses. These luminous galaxies are up to 10,000 times brighter than our Milky Way galaxy, and we are able to see them because of a phenomenon called gravitational lensing. Galaxies or clusters […]

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—A U.S. spacecraft set to launch next year will make a series of unprecedented dives into the sun’s scorching atmosphere to see how the star works and what can be done to better predict space weather events on Earth, scientists said on Wednesday. The Parker Solar Probe will have to survive temperatures as […]

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—The U.S. military’s experimental X-37B space plane landed on Sunday at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, completing a classified mission that lasted nearly two years, the Air Force said. The unmanned X-37B, which resembles a miniature space shuttle, touched down at 7:47 a.m. EDT on a runway formerly used for landings of […]

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket lifted off from Florida on Tuesday, propelling a cargo capsule filled with supplies and science experiments toward the International Space Station. The 19-story booster soared off its seaside launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 11:11 a.m. EDT/1511 GMT. NASA broadcast an unprecedented 360-degree […]

Scientists confirmed the existence of seven new planets orbiting the star TRAPPIST-1.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—For the first time ever, astronomers have discovered seven Earth-size planets orbiting a nearby star—and these new worlds could hold life. This cluster of planets is less than 40 light-years away in the constellation Aquarius, according to NASA and the Belgian-led research team who announced the discovery Wednesday. The planets circle tightly around […]

Astronauts onboard the International Space Station have harvested another batch of produce.

Pilots have been telling tales about mysterious colored flashes of light in the sky for some time, but evidence supporting the claims has been fleeting until recently.

Astronomers have observed a large black hole consuming the remains of a destroyed star for an unusually long period of time.

Among the latest images taken from the ISS is one showing an area in northern Idaho that looks like an enormous checkerboard.

HONOLULU—Crammed into a dome with one bathroom, six scientists will spend eight months munching on mostly freeze-dried foods—with a rare treat of Spam—and have only their small sleeping quarters to retreat to for solace. The simulated stay on Mars with a carefully selected crew of researchers embarked on a mission Thursday to gain insight into […]

The Curiosity rover may have located a rare meteorite composed of iron and nickel on Mars.

Here's an incredible image showing the surface of Titan - Saturn's moon.

Here's what Earth looks like from Mars.