The island, which is a coral atoll, has an area of just 0.1 square mile (0.25 square kilometer) and is located around 4,000 ...

They’re seeing what no human has seen before. The first civilian astronauts to orbit Earth’s polar region revealed the ...

The conical capsule landed with the assistance of a parachute and was quickly recovered. The spacecraft carried a spectrometer from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and a Varda enhanced ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit celebrated his 70th birthday returning from a 220-day mission on the International Space Station.

The crew of four astronauts flew in a polar orbit for nearly four days to explore the Earth’s polar regions for the first time.