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April 22 is traditionally known as Earth Day, the occasion where we pause as temporary travelers on our 'blue marble' to ...
Veteran astronaut Don Pettit conducted hundreds of hours of research and captured over half a million photos during his ISS ...
NASA astronaut Don Pettit is back on Earth after completing a 220-day mission aboard the International Space Station. Pettit, ...
Auroras are natural light displays that occur when charged particles from the sun interact with Earth’s magnetic field and ...
It is one of the questions we have all asked ourselves at some point: when will the world end? Well, a team of several ...
Don Pettit, NASA's oldest active-duty astronaut, celebrated his 70th birthday with two cosmonaut crewmates overnight Saturday ...
For 35 years, the Hubble Space Telescope has taken photos of celestial objects across the universe. Look back at 10 photos ...
A change of command ceremony will take place the day before at 2:40 p.m. ET April 18, which NASA will also livestream. A complete schedule of coverage can be found here. After returning to Earth ...
NASA astronaut Don Pettit will return to Earth from the International Space Station Saturday, alongside his two Russian ...
Following a seven-month stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS), NASA astronaut Don Pettit and two Russian ...
NASA's official Earth Day 2025 poster. | Credit: NASA To help commemorate and engage in Earth Day 2025, one fun activity we can all partake in is a special NASA page where participants can ...