Hello everyone. I am astronaut Soichi Noguchi.Thanks to good fortune, I have been blessed with the opportunity to look down at the Earth from the International Space Station (ISS) a total of three ...

Our magnetosphere plays the role of gatekeeper, repelling unwanted energy that's harmful to life on Earth, trapping most of it a safe distance from Earth's surface in twin doughnut-shaped zones called ...

This stunning astronaut photo shows the last time one of NASA's iconic space shuttles photobombed astronauts' view of Earth as the spacecraft docked with the ISS. NASA's Space Shuttle Program included ...

To see Earth from space is to be forever changed by the view. Since Alan Shepard became the first American to lay eyes on our home planet from above, countless NASA astronauts have described feeling ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A view of Earth from space shared during NASA's historic Artemis II ...

Seventy years ago, Earth had only one satellite: the moon. Now it has more than 15,000—about 10,000 of which are owned by Elon Musk's SpaceX. The world's first trillionaire plans to launch 1 million ...

In October 2024, the aurora borealis lit up Earth. Astronaut Don Pettit captured it from the ISS, while Babak Tafreshi captured it in Massachusetts. Photography is all a matter of perspective: one ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — An ailing astronaut returned to Earth with three others on Thursday, ending their space station mission more than a month early in NASA's first medical evacuation. SpaceX ...