The latest image of Pluto captured on July 13, 2015 by New Horizons some 476,000 miles away reveals the dwarf planet’s “heart.” The photo took some 4.5 hours to transmit back to Earth 3 billion miles away, and is the most detailed image of the dwarf-planet...
NASA’s new commercial crew (from left to right, top to bottom): Bob Behnken, Eric Boe, Doug Hurley and Sunita Williams. Credit: NASA NASA has announced the selection of four American commercial space astronauts as part of an initiative to strengthen the U.S.’...
STARS students stand outside the HI-SEAS Mars-simulation habitat, suited up for a space expedition on the rugged terrain of Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii. Stargazing, spacecraft missions, and visiting Mars? It sounds like the life of an astronaut, but this was the life...
Image: Astronaut Ed White became the first American to conduct a “spacewalk” in the vast emptiness of space on June 3, 1965 during Gemini IV. Commander James McDivitt, his mission counterpart, captured this photo of him outside the space craft over the Pacific...
Image Credit: Samantha Cristoforetti/ESA/NASA. European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti captured this amazing view of Hawaii Island some 200 miles overhead from the International Space Station (ISS) late last month. Cristoforetti shared her photo on...
