Photographer extraordinaire Don Pettit is about to return to Earth following a seven-month stay aboard the space station. Take a moment to enjoy his best work.

Skywatchers worldwide are in for a charming cosmic display before the sun rises next week as three celestial bodies will ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Four space tourists who orbited the north and south poles returned to Earth on Friday, splashing down in the Pacific to end their privately funded polar tour.

Dr. Mae Jemison continues to inspire the next wave of space travelers while championing science and education on Earth. Selected from among 2,000 applicants to NASA's astronaut training program in ...

Hot on the tail of the "blood moon" total lunar eclipse earlier this month comes a rise-and-shine special: a partial solar eclipse that will be visible at sunrise ... the sun, Earth and moon.

Fram2 will be the first crewed mission to orbit over Earth’s polar regions—and “Mission MushVroom will be the first study to grow mushrooms in space,” reads a Fram2 statement from Monday.

Maria Azzurra Volpe is a Newsweek Life & Trends reporter based in London, U.K. Her focus is reporting on everyday life topics and trending stories. She has covered Pet Care and Wildlife stories ...

It's intended as a way to station space vehicles to quickly counter orbital threats. During the last century, as wars raged on the surface of the Earth, space was seen as something of a sanctuary ...

Rendering of fireworks on the Potomac River as part of artist Cai Guo-Qiang's "Interspecies Love Letter," a sky painting for the Earth to Space festival at The Kennedy Center for the Performing ...

To be clear, not NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, but rather the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. "Earth to Space: Arts Breaking the Sky" is set to ...

"Watches of this level are not uncommon," according to NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center; G2-strength geomagnetic storms hit Earth about 360 days in each 11-year solar cycle. These storms can ...

A partial solar eclipse occurs when the moon only covers a portion of the sun’s disk, its central shadow slightly missing Earth ... seen to block the moon at sunrise. During a partial solar ...