NASA said Thursday that it will bring four astronauts aboard the International Space Station back to Earth more than a month earlier than planned because of a medical issue - the first such evacuation in the space station`s 25-year history...

In this grab from a live broadcast run by the Russian space agency Roscosmos on December 28, 2025, a Soyuz-2...

Michaela Benthaus in Munich, Germany, on Dec...

U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly, left, swears in Jared Isaacman, right, as the 15th administrator of NASA, as Isaacman`s parents, Donald and Sandra Marie, join him Thursday in Washington, D...

Jared Isaacman testifies at his confirmation hearing in the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on Dec...

The James Webb Space Telescope Mirror is seen during a media unveiling at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center at Greenbelt, Maryland, on November 2, 2016...

Rapid cooling of planet’s core may lead to earlier shut-down of crucial tectonic processes © Getty Images / De Agostini Picture Library A critical tectonic process between the core and surface layers may be shut down earlier than anticipated The Earth’s molten interior is cooling faster than expected, which could turn the planet into a cold, inactive world similar to neighboring Mercury and Mars sooner than previously thought, researchers have warned...

Illustration of Mars and the Sun © pixabay / GooKingSword Former NASA director James Green says the two planets could be ‘terraformed’ using shields to protect them from the Sun Building a magnetic shield between the Sun and Mars could protect the planet from solar particles that erode its fragile atmosphere, eventually making it terraform itself to better suit humans, NASA’s former director has said...

A handout picture released by Iran’s Defense Ministry on July 27, 2017 shows a Simorgh (Phoenix) satellite rocket at its launch site...

FILE PHOTO: SpaceX founder and Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks on a screen during the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain, June 29, 2021 © Reuters / Nacho Doce Billionaire SpaceX CEO insists there’s enough room in space for tens of billions of satellites Elon Musk has rejected complaints that SpaceX Starlink satellites are taking up too much room in Earth’s orbit...

The file photo shows a model of the Chinese space station Tiangong orbiting Earth...

Young Free Floating Planets in their parent nebula...

© Pixabay / urikyo33 The beginning of 2022 will be marked by a large asteroid approaching the Earth...

Kevin Spacey in a cafe in Turin, Italy, June 2021...

The American SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule approaches the International Space Station for docking...

FILE: In this file photo taken Saturday, June 16, 2012, a Shenzhou 9 spacecraft Long March rocket with 3 astronauts including China’s first female astronaut launches - Copyright AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File China is aiming to complete work on its space station within about two years, officials said after the launch of a new spacecraft on Tuesday...

An observatory in Brazil captured the moment a meteorite speeds across the night sky before exploding and crashing ...

A Russian cargo ship has docked at the International Space Station (ISS), delivering supplies at the station...