The Saddest and Strangest Tales of Animals in Space
Ham the juvenile chimp with trainers at Cape Canaveral, Florida, on January 31, 1961.Photo: NASA From spiders struggling to make webs in orbit to bats clinging to the outside of…
Pulse-Pounding Photos Recall NASA’s Historic First Untethered Spacewalk, 40 Years On
Photo: NASA “It may have been one small step for Neil,” McCandless quipped in reference to Armstrong’s famous words, “but it’s a heck of a big leap for me.” As…
16 Iconic NASA Photos That Changed Everything
NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft captured this view of Earth—appearing as a speck of light—on February 14, 1980, at a distance of roughly 3.2 billion miles (6 billion km) from the…
How to Watch NASA’s Rare All-Woman Spacewalk Live
Expedition 70 Flight Engineers Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O’Hara in front of the International Space Station’s Cold Atom Lab. Photo: NASA Two NASA astronauts are gearing up for their first…
New Analysis of 1970s Moonquakes Reveals an Unexpected Origin
Sensors placed on the surface of the Moon during the Apollo 17 mission picked up a mysterious tremor, one that regularly occurred as the Sun rose to its peak position…
How to watch the first NASA spacewalk in eight months
NASA is about to lead its first spacewalk since March 2022, with two American astronauts embarking on their first excurions outside the space station.