NASA model reveals Earth is actually shaped like a potato

For centuries, Earth has been pictured as a near-perfect blue sphere floating through space — but a new high-precision gravity model is revealing a far stranger reality. Using detailed measurements ...

Russian Soyuz brings three home after 8 months at space station

The Soyuz MS-28 landing in Kazakhstan brought a 241-day stay in space to a successful conclusion.

NASA's new Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is about to launch. Here's why it's so cool.

"We're going to find one-in-a-million things over and over and over again," a NASA scientist recently predicted.

NASA astronaut Chris Williams spent 241 days circling Earth, completing nearly 4,000 orbits before finally returning home

NASA astronaut Chris Williams has returned to Earth after completing an eight-month science mission aboard the International ...

NASA’s Roman space telescope should reveal 'one-in-a-million' discoveries

Scheduled to launch Aug. 30 aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, NASA's Roman telescope will image far more sky than Hubble ...
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After 241 days in orbit this NASA astronaut is finally home

NASA astronaut Chris Williams and two Roscosmos cosmonauts are back on Earth after spending 241 days aboard the International ...

Spacecraft Sent to Rescue NASA Telescope Is Having Its Own Issues

The LINK spacecraft is designed to rendezvous with Swift and nudge the spacecraft to a more stable orbit. In doing so, NASA ...

NASA's ESCAPADE spacecraft captures rare view of Earth and Moon in visible and thermal infrared on way to Mars

NASA's ESCAPADE spacecraft captured Earth and the Moon from 363,250 miles away, revealing stunning differences between ...

NASA’s Swift telescope could crash to Earth as $30 million rescue spacecraft spins out of control

A mission to save NASA's Swift telescope is encountering difficulties. The Link satellite, sent for rescue, has developed ...

Not round, not an ellipse: NASA’s gravity-based model reveals Earth’s true geoid shape

The new model released by the U.S. space agency distorts sea level to show variations in Earth's gravity, helping scientists ...

NASA astronaut returns to Earth with 2 cosmonauts after 8-month stay on ISS

NASA says three members of the International Space Station are back on Earth after an 8-month-long space mission.