For optical astronomy, the space station will be accompanied by the Xuntian telescope, which can be translated to “survey the ...

Once in space, the Space Shuttle Orbiter became an autonomous space station, using a combination of powerful thrusters, advanced avionics, and life-support systems to maintain orbit. This video breaks ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured this image ... NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore completed the International Space Station's 274th spacewalk last week, dubbed U.S. EVA 92.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope recently imaged the Sombrero Galaxy with its MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument), resolving the ...

Commander Matthew Dominick, pilot Michael Barratt, mission specialists Jeanette Epps and Aleksandr Grebenkin arrived at the ...

BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – Addison Leroy Bain, 89, passed away in Melbourne, Florida, on January 22, 2025. It was determined that another scientist was needed in the universe to study the galaxy and ...

The program’s overall contract is worth up to $4.82 billion and over the next five years, Viasat will have a piece of that work. From there, NASA has the option to extend the contract an additional ...

ALMA picks up signals from big dust grains, about the size of sand grains, showing that they are concentrated in a thin, ...

Luckily, Hubble is the only telescope designed to ... when space shuttle Atlantis docked with the Russian space station Mir. During this historic STS-71 mission, Atlantis delivered two cosmonauts ...

The success of SpaceX and other private-sector space firms is throwing up hard questions about America's "great national ...

The comet ATLAS, experts say, has a 1,60,000 year orbit around the Sun. It was discovered in April 2024 by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), hence the name. As for its origin, ...

As we face so many challenges as a city, may we draw on Sister Maeve’s compassionate, moral lens of “see, judge, act.” ...