The 'Mercury Seven': The emotional anniversary of the first Americans chosen by NASA to fly into space NASA's Mars rover spotted something extraordinary: a mysterious skull-shaped bulge ...

It was Don Pettit's 4th spaceflight, with over 18 months spent in orbit during his career NASA astronaut Don Pettit (C) being carried to a medical tent shortly after he, and Roscosmos cosmonauts ...

But NASA's oldest serving astronaut Don Pettit became a septuagenarian while hurtling towards the Earth in a spacecraft to wrap up a seven-month mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS).

The trio returned after spending 220 days in space and orbiting the Earth 3,520 times, Nasa said in a statement. They will spend time in the recovery staging city of Karaganda, Kazakhstan ...

Launch recap: Scroll down to review live updates from the Monday, April 21, liftoff of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on the CRS-32 resupply mission. Original story ...

In what comes as a surprising development, the researchers from Oxford University say that a discovery by NASA may confirm the Biblical account of Jesus' crucifixion. According to researchers ...

Longtime NASA astronaut Don Pettit, who has ventured to space four times, returned to Earth on Saturday night from the International Space Station. Pettit, who turned 70 on Sunday, landed at 9:20 ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes its way to an even bigger prize: the unexplored swarms of asteroids out near Jupiter.

Cosmonauts will join the veteran spacefarer's return after 220 days in space. In a remarkable coincidence, NASA astronaut Don Pettit will mark his 70th birthday with a fiery reentry through Earth ...

Update: Don Pettit and crew made a safe, parachute-assisted landing at 9:20 p.m. Saturday, April 19 (6:20 a.m. on Sunday, April 20, Kazakhstan time), southeast of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan ...

Technicians at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center are nearing the finish line on the space agency’s newest flagship astrophysics mission. Called the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope ...

Rocket launches from Florida occur at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center or Cape Canaveral, an hour east of Orlando theme parks. Watching a rocket launch on the beach is a total “so Florida,” very ...