An American astronaut captured otherworldly green lights on Earth. Spaceman Don Pettit shot the eerie spectacle of fishing boats illuminating the sea from aboard the International Space Station (ISS).

The high-capacity, fiber-optic cable that will link five continents will span a fantastic 31,000 miles (50,000 km) – for reference, the circumference of the Earth is 24,901 miles (40,075 km).

Former NASA astronaut Ron Garan spent 178 days in space and has accumulated more than 71 million miles in 2,842 orbits of Earth. Basically, he's spent a lot of time up in space, and has since spoken ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids. NASA has a network of telescopes used to track near-Earth asteroids, like ...

The two-time Oscar winner and star of 'The French Connection' and 'Superman,' has died at 95 alongside his wife Betsy Arakawa Gene Hackman, the screen actor with iconic roles in The French ...

"With the first generation of Starlink, we can expect about 2 tonnes (2.2 tons) of dead satellites reentering Earth's atmosphere daily. But meteoroids are mostly rock, which is made of oxygen ...

The less well-received Superman movies all have their problems, but the biggest criticsms are often the characters. Superman’s characters may not seem like the most complex ever written ...

In world-first observations, the James Webb Space Telescope is watching two distant alien planets "spilling their guts into space" as they rapidly disintegrate — and scientists are elated at ...