NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, who returned to Earth earlier this month after spending nine months in space ...

Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling stars. The image features a small region of the SMC near the center of NGC ...

SpaceX is set to launch the first human spaceflight directly over Earth's polar regions on Monday—a days-long, privately ...

No humans have traveled directly over the Earth's poles from space. SpaceX will attempt to launch four passengers over the Earth's poles.

Saturn is below Venus and very low in the predawn sky. In late April it is five degrees above the horizon. You may need ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe is constructed to find out the different aspects of the Sun’s outer atmosphere, or corona, to ...

A century ago, Edwin Hubble revolutionized our understanding of the universe by proving that the Milky Way is just one of many galaxies in an ever-expanding cosmos. This breakthrough led to the ...

Here’s a look at the International Space Station (ISS), a station operated by a partnership of five space agencies from 15 countries. Information on ISS crews and expeditions can be found here.

One moment occurred in 1984 when NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless II became the first human to spacewalk or float free from ...

From the lunar landing to the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, here are some bold space missions in history.

A professor who created a crucial part of the Hubble Space Telescope has been elected an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Professor Asad Madni is joined by cartoonist and artist Kate ...

Ohio State University announced former astronaut and Marine Maj. Gen. Charles Frank Bolden Jr. as this spring’s commencement speaker. Bolden was NASA’s ...