Space

NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei, back on Earth after breaking the record for the longest single spaceflight in history by an American, will participate in a virtual news conference at 10 a.m. EDT Tuesday, April 5, from the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.

A fresh assessment of a distantly risky asteroid brings good news: it’s even less of a threat than astronomers had feared.

Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital launcher lofted six passengers, including the rocket’s chief designer, on an up-and-down flight to the edge of space Thursday.

Packed with a veritable smörgåsbord of galaxies, Coma Berenices is on full display this month.

NASA and Axiom Space will provide coverage of the upcoming prelaunch and launch activities for Axiom Mission 1 (Ax-1), the first private astronaut mission to the International Space Station.

Jack Lousma does not remember having M&M’s while he was in space. As a NASA astronaut, Lousma commanded the third space shuttle mission 40 years ago, which flew the first candy-coated chocolates.

NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei, wrapping up nearly one year in orbit, rode a Russian Soyuz spaceship back to Earth on Wednesday with Russian commander Anton Shkaplerov and flight engineer Pyotr Dubrov. The crew returned home from the International Space Station and landed in Kazakhstan at 7:28 a.m. EDT (1128 […]

As you might guess, the Coma galaxy cluster resides within the boundaries of the constellation Coma Berenices. If you have access to a large amateur telescope, you can search for it 2.7° due west of magnitude 4.2 Beta (β) Comae Berenices. The Coma Cluster is huge, with over 1,000 galaxies […]

After extending the record for the longest single spaceflight in history by an American to 355 days, NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei returned to Earth on Wednesday, March 30, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov.

Humanity is making a giant leap back to the moon and to Mars. But one giant obstacle continues to plague the humans making this progress possible: sexual harassment.