April 22 is traditionally known as Earth Day, the occasion where we pause as temporary travelers on our 'blue marble' to ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit is back on Earth after completing a 220-day mission aboard the International Space Station. Pettit, who turned 70 during the mission, traveled more ...

Auroras are natural light displays that occur when charged particles from the sun interact with Earth’s magnetic field and ...

It is one of the questions we have all asked ourselves at some point: when will the world end? Well, a team of several ...

Don Pettit, NASA's oldest active-duty astronaut, celebrated his 70th birthday with two cosmonaut crewmates overnight Saturday ...

For 35 years, the Hubble Space Telescope has taken photos of celestial objects across the universe. Look back at 10 photos ...

During their mission, Pettit and his crewmates spent 220 days in space, orbiting the Earth 3,520 times and traveling a total ...

A change of command ceremony will take place the day before at 2:40 p.m. ET April 18, which NASA will also livestream. A complete schedule of coverage can be found here. After returning to Earth ...

Don Pettit arrived in Space City on Sunday (April 20), which happened to be his 70th birthday.

Following a seven-month stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS), NASA astronaut Don Pettit and two Russian ...

NASA's official Earth Day 2025 poster. | Credit: NASA To help commemorate and engage in Earth Day 2025, one fun activity we can all partake in is a special NASA page where participants can ...