The ultimate purpose of PUNCH is to use its four instruments — three wide-field imagers (WFI) and a near-field imager (NFI) — ...

This week was monumental for NASA’s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere, or PUNCH mission. The four small satellites sent to low Earth orbit opened their eyes metaphorically for the first ...

The Hubble Space Telescope time-lapse captured footage of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, ...

The flight soared well above the Kármán line, a point at 100 kilometers (62 miles) that is often used to define the altitude at which air space ends and outer ... a former NASA engineer who ...

After just over seven months in space, NASA’s oldest serving astronaut, Don Pettit, is returning to Earth. Pettit will travel home alongside Russian cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner ...

To study Mars’s chemical and mineral makeup, the Curiosity rover drills one to 1.5 inches down into the subsurface, then ...

The odds of meteorites reaching Earth got a boost from Jupiter, say Rebecca Martin, a NASA Sagan Fellow from the University of Colorado, and astronomer Mario Livio of the Space Telescope Science ...

Scientists Source Solar Emissions With Largest-Ever Concentration of Rare Helium Isotope Apr. 9, 2025 — The NASA/ESA Solar Orbiter ... a Satellite to Hunt Small Space Debris Feb. 27, 2025 ...

Photographer extraordinaire Don Pettit is about to return to Earth following a seven-month stay aboard the space station. Take a moment to enjoy his best work.

Spaceflight, once a sector dominated by government space agencies like NASA, is increasingly becoming a commercial enterprise as billionaire-led companies like Bezos' Blue Origin, Elon Musk's ...

There was certainly news coverage but not the kind of global audience that has attended other crewed space launches. That’s not the way it was on May 5, 1961, when NASA astronaut Alan Shepard ...

Just like the rest of us, NASA astronauts pay taxes. Astronauts are supposed to file taxes no matter where they are working, even on the International Space Station (ISS). In 1970, in fact ...