NASA also celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2008 by transmitting a song directly into deep space: the Beatles’ “Across the ...

Photographer Petr Horálek observed both a lunar eclipse and a galaxy of stars from the the US National Science Foundation’s ...

Lunar exploration is entering a new era. Long after the Apollo missions, a renewed international interest comes with ...

Strauss' “Blue Danube” waltz is heading into space this month to mark the 200th anniversary of the composer's birth.

This month's night sky is filled with close-range meteors, swirling nebulas, and prime stargazing conditions. Here’s when you ...

the Hubble Space Telescope first reached Earth orbit 35 years ago on April 24, 1990. A day later, as this photo shows, the STS-31 crew aboard space shuttle Discovery released Hubble, beginning a ...

The image of him drifting alone above the Earth is considered the most terrifying space photo ever taken. His spacewalk was not a stunt. It was the first demonstration of a cutting-edge tool ...

The photographs purportedly showing Williams after her return to Earth were taken in June 2024, before her space mission. On X, users posted photographs of Williams, who was on the ISS for nine ...

After spending 434 days in space, the crewless Space Force craft returned to Earth on March 7, landing at California's Vandenberg Space Force Base in the middle of the night. The agency snapped ...

The first metal thingamajig ever 3D printed in space has landed on Earth, where European Space Agency (ESA) scientists are now studying it. In a press release, the ESA announced that the object ...

The United States Space Force has unexpectedly published a photo its top-secret X-37B space plane took while orbiting the Earth last year. The image, which the military arm shared on X-formerly ...

The United States Space Force released a rare photo of its secretive X-37B space ... captures an image of Earth while conducting experiments in HEO in 2024," the United States Space Force wrote ...