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NASA Astronauts Chris Cassidy and Robert Behnken are conducting a second space walk this week to work on battery upgrades at the International Space Station. The spacewalk is expected to last seven hours.

A spacewalking astronaut has added to the millions of pieces of junk orbiting the Earth.

There are few people who can describe the emotions felt by NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley as they embarked on their mission to the International Space Station. NASA astronaut Anne McClain just happens to be one of them.

For the first time in nearly a decade, the United States launched astronauts into orbit from U.S. soil. Sunday, the SpaceX Dragon Endeavor docked with the International Space Station.

SpaceX is slated to be the first private company to launch a manned space flight on May 27. The company, founded by Tesla founder Elon Musk, will carry two American astronauts to the International Space Station from the Kennedy Space Center.

Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit failed Monday in its first test launch of a new rocket carried aloft by a Boeing 747 and released over the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Southern California.

Those who dreamed of being an astronaut as a child may soon have their chance to reach for the stars, according to NASA, which will accept applications in March for its next class of astronauts.

A visiting mini-moon is circling Earth, according to astronomers who discovered the cosmic squatter in our planet’s orbit.

A cargo ship is rocketing toward the International Space Station, carrying candy and cheese to satisfy the crew’s cravings.

NASA Astronaut Christina Koch returned to Earth Thursday, landing in Kazkhstan after wrapping up her record-setting 328-day mission in space.

During his junior year at Scarsdale High School in New York, Wolf Cukier landed a two-month internship with NASA. So during the summer of 2019, he traveled down to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. His first assignment was to examine variations in star brightness captured by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, known as TESS, as a part...

The right time, the right spot and the right phenomenon landed one photographer a photo set of a lifetime.

A U.S. astronaut set a record Saturday for the longest single spaceflight by a woman, breaking the old mark of 288 days with about two months left in her mission. Christina Koch, a 40-year-old electrical engineer from Livingston, Montana, arrived at the International Space Station on March 14. She broke the record set by former space station commander Peggy Whitson…

Boeing safely landed its crew capsule in the New Mexico desert Sunday after an aborted flight to the International Space Station that threatened to set back the company’s effort to launch astronauts for NASA next year. The Starliner descended into the Army’s White Sands Missile Range in the frigid predawn darkness, ending a two-day demo that should have lasted...

A dune formation found on Mars would seem — without knowing the story of dunes, lava and wind behind it — highly illogical. Many fans of the show “Star Trek” are noting one particular dune “footprint” looks curiously like the show’s logo. But scientists say this is just a coincidence. Here’s why: A long time ago, there were large crescent-shaped...

There were nearly 500 reported sightings of a fireball over the Southeastern region of the U.S. early Thursday morning, according to the American Meteor Society. Reports of the possible meteor came from Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia and Alabama.