NASA astronaut Don Pettit has snapped a striking shot of the super-bright comet racing past our planet for the first time in ...

Pettit is a veteran of two long-duration stays aboard the ISS, and is currently undertaking his third. On September 11 2024 ...

Sunlight tends to wash out such objects as they sidle up to the star, but this one can be viewed at dawn or dusk, its own ...

A NEAR-MISS with two mysterious flying objects has seen a former NASA commander propose a link to the military as he admits not knowing what he saw. Astronaut Leroy Chiao was flying his private ...

Nasa's Valkyrie robot was built by the Johnson Space Center to compete in a 2013 robotics challenge trial. Weighing 300lb and standing at 6ft2in, it looks not unlike a Star Wars Stormtrooper, but it ...

Astronauts working in zero gravity must recognise and visualise objects from many different angles. Try this typical mental rotation task. What would this 2D net look like when it's folded into a ...

Launched on Aug. 12, 2018, the probe is the fastest human-made object in existence. It used flybys of Venus to adjust its orbit increasingly closer to the solar surface. It completed its seventh and ...

Chiao speculates objects may be military drones, saying 'if it's not that, then it gets a little more scary.' Leroy Chiao at the world premiere of "The Astronaut Farmer." (photo credit ...