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Dr. Bernard Harris Jr., a decorated astronaut who became the first Black person to perform a spacewalk in 1995, is being ...
NASA shared new pictures of the Mount Everest and the Himalayas as seen from space. Look at the gigantic mountain range from the perspective of an astronaut.
With its sweeping tempo and ethereal melody, Austrian composer Johann Strauss II's "The Blue Danube" waltz has become ...
Ever wonder why space launch vehicles are called rockets? Learn the origin of the term and how it came to define modern space ...
The telescope launched in March 2025 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space ... Earth more than 11,000 times while surveying and imaging the surrounding sky. When SPHEREx takes ...
As the Hubble Space Telescope celebrates 35 years in space, here's what to know about the ambitious instrument.
Though it suffered two tragedies, claiming the lives of 14 astronauts, the space shuttle also opened Earth orbit to more people and more types of people, flying the first American women and ...
Billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, who has close ties to Elon Musk, was President Trump's pick to serve as NASA ...
The soon-to-reenter Soviet Cosmos 482 Venus probe is getting increased attention by satellite trackers – and new imagery ...
The two images ... Earth in the background. Intuitive Machines shared the photos within about 13 hours of the spacecraft ...
Voyager 1 will be the guest of honor at what may be the most exclusive concert in history. To mark the 200th birthday of ...
A dazzling cosmic swirl, NGC 3507 shines alone in this Hubble image, though it secretly belongs to a dynamic galactic duo.