SpaceX, the rocket company of high-tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, was due on Sunday (November 15) to launch four astronauts on a flight to the International Space Station, NASA's first full-fledged mission sending a crew into orbit aboard...
Pitt peppered astronaut Nick Hague with dozens of questions about what life was like in space.
"Most important question: Who controls the jam box?" Pitt asked, referring to the space station's music.
"We have a rotating playlist, we take turns. And...
Located in the star's habitable zone, the exoplanet receives about the same amount of stellar energy from its star as Mars does from the Sun, according to NASA.
At 31 light years away, the planet weighs at least 6.1 times...
The rocket lifted off atop a bed of fire at 9:28 pm local time (1228 EDT/1628GMT) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, carrying NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan, Luca Parmitano of ESA (European Space Agency) and Alexander Skvortsov of the Russian space...
By: Alexandra Varkarotas
Tuesday marked the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 space mission launch. To commemorate the Eagle landing on the moon on July 20, 1969, the Houston area will be buzzing with plenty of cosmic and lunar activities...
Making the long journey to the Space Station aboard Crew Dragon was a test dummy nicknamed 'Ripley,' has been embedded with sensors around its head, neck, and spine to monitor how a flight would feel for a human.
During its...
