“What?” NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson exclaimed after her fellow Shane Kimbrough radioed her saying, “Peggy, I don’t have a shield.” It was Thursday, March 30, 2017, and Whitson was tethered to the ...

An asteroid the size of a commercial jet passed closer to Earth than the Moon on September 3, 2025, in a high-speed flyby that drew global attention from skywatchers and astronomers alike. According ...

Two Americans and astronauts from Japan and Russia landed in a SpaceX capsule in the Pacific Ocean after a medical issue ...

A cool interstellar comet that for millions of years has drifted in the spaces between our stars is now back in our telescope viewing range and will make its closest approach to Earth this week. We’re ...

A frog took a giant leap when a Minotaur V rocket launched. A still camera on a sound trigger captured this photo of an airborne frog as NASA's LADEE spacecraft lifted off from Pad 0B at Wallops ...

NASA will livestream new 3I/ATLAS images today, Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2025, amid increased public interest in the mystery of the interstellar object after Harvard University astrophysicist Avi Loeb ...

Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics are helping to lead planning efforts for NASA’s next major space telescope — and its purpose will be to ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a new image of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. 3I/ATLAS is the third-ever object discovered that originated from outside our solar system. The comet is not a ...