NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers photographed a rare atmospheric phenomenon over the US and Mexico known as a "sprite" that's ...

This began with Project Mercury, which officially ran from 1958–1963 and succeeded in placing the first American astronaut into space. This was astronaut Alan Shepard, sent into orbit on May 5th ...

Gayle King, our fearless (ish) queen of morning news, just went to space. Like actual, real-deal, outer-orbit-for-11-minutes space. And while her game face may have cracked a little on the way up ...

What to know about the Blue Origin space flight with an all-female crew Blue Origin's latest New Shepard flight is set to take six women to space on April 14. NS-31, the company's 11th human ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. Picture: supplied Even the mission name, Fram2, is aptly titled after the late 1800s Norwegian explorer ship, Fram.

Corporations such as SpaceX, Blue Origin, Rocket Lab and Virgin Galactic are increasingly at the forefront of the new space race, but they operate in a legal vacuum as well as an atmospheric one.

On TikTok, scientists Esme Louise James and Matthew Agnew used the conservation of momentum to detail what happens when a male astronaut ejaculates in outer space.

Jeff Bezos, the second richest man in the world, successfully blasted off a 320-foot-tall rocket ship via his Blue Origin company from Cape Canaveral, Florida, in the early hours of the morning ...

Whether your family wants to explore outer space or see dinosaurs, you'll never go wrong with a trip to a science museum.

SpaceX Dragon reaches historic heights Prior to Polaris Dawn, Isaacman was the only member of the Polaris Dawn crew to have been to outer space before, having served in 2021 as mission commander ...

A version of this article appears in print on Sept. 12, 2024, Section A, Page 17 of the New York edition with the headline: Polaris Dawn’s Civilian Astronauts Prepare for Their Walk in Space.