British writer Samantha Harvey has won the Booker Prize for fiction with “Orbital,” a short, wonder-filled novel set aboard ...

Samantha Harvey wins literary award for Orbital, her novel about six astronauts ‘trapped in a tin can’ as they orbit Earth ...

A time-lapse view of Antarctica & the moon can be seen in footage captured by the Meteosat-11 satellite. Credit: Simon Proud ...

Be wowed by a beautiful space view of star trails captured in a long-exposure image from the International Space Station.

Topekans seven times in the coming week should be able to watch the International Space Station pass overhead after dark in the early evening.

An astronaut’s photo from the International Space Station captures crepuscular rays and cumulonimbus clouds, revealing a ...

Data from NISAR will improve our understanding of such phenomena as earthquakes, volcanoes, and landslides, as well as damage ...

Samantha Harvey's Booker Prize-shortlisted novel Orbital explores the raw reality of life in space, devoid of fantasy.

The second stage of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket captured an amazing view of Earth during the launch of the Intelsat 40e ...

Even from space, you wouldn’t detect something important about Earth’s shape: It’s not perfectly round. It’s actually a slightly oblate spheroid, or an ellipsoid. This means it is a little bit wider ...

On 6, 2024, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded a powerful solar flare, peaking at 8:40 a.m. ET. This flare, classified as an X2.3, is intense enough to potentially disrupt radio signals, ...

The Taurid meteor shower (Southern Taurids and Northern Taurids) is one of the most exciting times for skywatchers around the ...