NASA astronaut Don Pettit is currently on his third stay on the International Space Station where he works with other astronauts to conduct experiments and maintain the celestial outpost. But in his ...

A famous illustration of Saturn's moon Titan got it all wrong. Never mind -- what we imagine space to be, and what we know it ...

2024 also featured the brightest comet since Hale-Bopp passed by in 1997. The comet in question was Comet A3, also known as ...

Pettit is now in the midst of his third stint on the International Space Station, and the decade he had to prepare for his ...

Eagle-eyed geologist Mark Tingay recently noticed the emergence of a ‘ghost island’ in November of 2024, caused by a ...

It's even considered closer to space than to any Earth land mass. The Kármán line, known as the boundary of space, is 62 miles above Earth. Astronauts aboard the ISS in equatorial low-Earth ...

New Data on Atmosphere from Earth to the Edge of Space Jan. 10, 2025 — Researchers have created a dataset of the whole atmosphere, enabling new research to be conducted on previously difficult ...

"Normally we see Olympus Mons in narrow strips from above, but by turning the spacecraft toward the horizon we can see in a single image how large it looms over the landscape," NASA's Odyssey ...

In reality, it is unlikely that terrestrially abundant materials will be mined and brought back to Earth. Instead, we may see businesses aiming to source and use materials in space that are ...

A famous illustration of Saturn's moon Titan got it all wrong. Never mind -- what we imagine space to be, and what we know it ...