Pointed away from Earth about 404 miles overhead, the orbital observatory will circle the planet from north to south about 14 ...

This spectrograph map, generated from data collected by NASA's New Horizons probe, depicts the relatively uniform brightness ...

Curiosity rover is hunting for microbial life on Mars. NASA reconnaissance orbiter snapped its first-ever image of Curiosity ...

Scientists research crystallisations in space rather than on Earth Study reveals higher-quality crystals in microgravity than in gravity Research will help in the field of medicine and technology ...

NASA has collaborated with some private players and academic institutions to develop the Quantum Gravity Gradiometer Pathfinder (QGGPf) — the first space-based quantum sensor that will monitor ...

The trio are scheduled to depart the ISS at 5:57 p.m. ET and touch down in Kazakhstan about 3.5 hours later. NASA astronaut Don Pettit and two cosmonaut colleagues will return to Earth this ...

Longtime NASA astronaut Don ... that,” Pettit said from the space station during an April 3 interview with astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. Pettit said his photography is about the ...

As the International Space Station soared 257 miles above Lake Michigan, NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Flight Engineer Don Pettit captured this long-exposure photograph of city lights streaking ...

a researcher at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, said in a NASA statement. Regardless of what made them, the detection of the carbon chains and their likely origins as fatty acids confirms that ...

Cosmonauts will join the veteran spacefarer's return after 220 days in space. In a remarkable coincidence, NASA astronaut Don Pettit will mark his 70th birthday with a fiery reentry through Earth ...

Technicians at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center are nearing the finish line on the space agency’s newest flagship astrophysics mission. Called the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope ...

NASA will provide live coverage of the return voyage beginning at 2 p.m. ET April 19 on the space agency's streaming service, NASA+. A change of command ceremony will take place the day before at ...