
This week in 2001, space shuttle Atlantis, mission STS-104, launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on a 12-day mission to…

The crew snapped this starry nighttime shot of Rio de Janeiro and surrounding cities on the Brazilian coast, as the…

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The International Space Station will join Comet NEOWISE in the sky.

This starry nighttime shot of Rio de Janeiro and surrounding cities on the Brazilian coast was taken as the International…

Victoria, Argentina (lower right), pictured from the International Space Station, is located on the eastern edge of the Parana River…

Roscosmos Flight Engineer Anatoly Ivanishin practices a simulated emergency evacuation of the International Space Station.

Roscosmos Flight Engineer Ivan Vagner practices a simulated emergency evacuation of the International Space Station.

Roscosmos Flight Engineers (from left) Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner practice a simulated emergency evacuation of the International Space Station.

In this image, NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover waits to be lifted onto its Atlas V launch vehicle at the…