In the photo from the space station, the comet is captured just above Earth’s horizon, which is illuminated by a bright light ...

As a reminder, the ATLAS comet came closest to Earth on January 14, at a distance of 142 million kilometers. A day earlier, the comet reached perihelion, its closest point to the Sun, making it shine ...

President-elect Donald Trump has named Troy Meink, a former Air Force KC-135 tanker navigator and former deputy of the ...

Once-in-a-lifetime' Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) will be visible to the naked eye, or through binoculars, in the UK this week - here's the best time ...

Wednesday was a busy day aboard the International Space Station (ISS), as the crew tackled cutting-edge microgravity research ...

Hawthorne Elementary kids in Boise will get a chance to sit down with an astronaut on the ISS and ask questions about space.

NASA astronaut Don Pettit's video of an "intensely green" aurora from the ISS has stirred online speculation about its ...

Auroras are beautiful lights seen near the North and South Poles. If you are near the North Pole, the lights are called ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit has started 2025 with a stunning Earth photo that he described as a “New Year’s light show.” Pettit captured the amazing image from the International Space Station ...

NASA astronauts Don Pettit and Butch Wilmore hailed the start of 16 New Year’s celebrations on the ISS. NASA Despite the ISS’s speedy 90-minute orbit around the Earth — as it travels about ...

Nasa astronauts Sunita Williams, Nick Hague, Barry Wilmore, and Donald Pettit unbox Thanksgiving meals, from the International Space Station (ISS), in this screen grab taken from a handout video, ...

This year was historic for space research and exploration, and we have the photos to prove it. In 2024, rare astronomical events captured the attention of sky watchers across the US, including a ...