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Artist’s illustration of the U.S. Air Force’s X-37B space plane in orbit. The United States Air Force’s mysterious X-37B space plane would make a nice medical-evacuation vehicle for the International Space Station (ISS), some researchers say. The orbiting lab hasn’t had a suitable astronaut ambulance since the retirement of NASA’s space shuttle fleet back in […]

NASA plans to launch a suite of tiny, next-generation satellites into Earth’s orbit to study weather patterns and climate change. These missions will conduct important scientific research while also advancing the technology needed to launch smaller, cheaper satellites, NASA said. The space agency hosted a teleconference today (Nov. 7) from its headquarters in Washington, D.C., […]

By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer | May 7, 2017 12:50pm ET Credit: NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Introduction The U.S. Air Force’s X-37B space plane has been zipping around Earth since May 2015 while it performs a number of hush-hush activities. The current mission is the fourth for the robotic X-37B, which is also […]

NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough is off the planet at the moment, but he still had his say in this year’s presidential election. Kimbrough, commander of the current Expedition 50 aboard the International Space Station (ISS), was able to vote from orbit thanks to procedures put in place by Texas legislators in 1997. (Most NASA astronauts […]

Artist’s illustration of the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter at Mars. ExoMars is a multi-part European-led program to explore Mars, both on the surface and from above. The program has two phases in the works. The components of the first phase, the Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) and Schiaparelli (a landing demonstrator), both arrived at Mars in […]

The International Space Station orbits 248 miles (400 kilometers) above Earth, and can be seen from the ground using a new interactive map called Spot the Station. The International Space Station completes multiple orbits around Earth every day, and now you can track the space lab as it passes overhead.  At an average altitude of 248 […]

(Updated Nov. 14) This year, the full moons of October, November and December all take place when the moon is at its closest point of approach in its orbit around Earth — a so-called supermoon.  The next supermoon will be November’s full Beaver Moon , which is expected to reach the peak of its full phase […]

The night sky tonight and on any clear night offers an ever-changing display of fascinating objects you can see, from stars and constellations to bright planets, often the moon, and sometimes special events like meteor showers. Observing the night sky can be done with no special equipment, although a sky map can be very useful, […]

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Astronaut Don Pettit’s new book Spaceborne” presents the best of his portfolio of photos of Earth from the space station. Three things have primarily changed how we see Earth in photographs from the International Space Station. The orbiting outpost gained a multi-window Cupola module in 2010, and advancements in digital photography brought better, more capable […]