Alexandra Whitmire, fifty, works at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, where she studies how prolonged isolation and confinement ...

NASA's newest space telescope, on a mission to study origins of universe, snapped incredible images of the cosmos 2 months ...

Auroral activity was forecast with a Kp index of four on a scale of nine, suggesting the northern lights will be more active ...

Astronomers are once again getting excited about a rare nova that could appear in the night sky anytime from now into the ...

Any day now, a massive stellar blast dubbed "the Blaze Star" could light up the night sky so brightly, you won't even need a ...

Though astronomers have known about the threat posed by near-Earth objects since the 1970s, efforts to catalogue potentially ...

The Aquarids meteor shower is set to peak this week. Everyone in the U.S. will have a chance to catch a glimpse.

NASA has confirmed that operations have begun for its latest space observatory, which is tasked with snapping 3,600 images of ...

Under optimal conditions, about 50 Eta Aquariid meteors can be seen per hour during the shower's peak. But light from the ...

Is it easier to fall asleep in low gravity?” and other spaceflight questions, answered by two NASA sleep scientists.

The Eta Aquarids meteor shower will peak May 5-6 this year. Best time to head outside will be in the hours before dawn. Give ...