Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden, who circled the moon alone in 1971 while his two crewmates test-drove the first lunar rover, died Wednesday at age 88. Worden died in his sleep at a rehab center in Houston following treatment for an infection, said friend and colleague Tom Kallman. “Al was an American hero whose achievements in space and on Earth…

A Virginia middle-schooler reached for the stars. Alexander Mather, a seventh-grader at Lake Braddock Secondary School in Burke, Virginia, won NASA’s “Name the Rover” essay contest. The space agency announced Thursday it will use Alexander’s suggested name, Perseverance, for the next Mars rover. The Mars rover is a robotic vehicle with wheels that can easily move around the surface...

Those who dreamed of being an astronaut as a child may soon have their chance to reach for the stars, according to NASA, which will accept applications in March for its next class of astronauts.

The work of a group of Windsor High School students is headed to outer space – literally.  Thursday former students from the school’s career and technical education program were honored for their design work on a tape dispenser and seat track attachment that will be used on the International Space Station. The project came to life through a partnership...

Students from Windsor High School were honored by NASA for their design of a tape dispenser that will be used on the International Space Station.

Katherine Johnson, a mathematician on early space missions who was portrayed in film “Hidden Figures,” has died at 101.

NASA’s newest Mars lander has confirmed that quakes and even aftershocks are regularly jolting the red planet.

A cargo ship is rocketing toward the International Space Station, carrying candy and cheese to satisfy the crew’s cravings.

NASA’s space snowman is revealing fresh secrets from its home far beyond Pluto

Europe and NASA’s Solar Orbiter has rocketed away on an unprecedented mission to capture the first pictures of the sun’s poles.

An International Space Station crew including NASA astronaut Christina Koch, who has spent more time in space on a single mission than any other woman, has landed safely in Kazakhstan

NASA Astronaut Christina Koch returned to Earth Thursday, landing in Kazkhstan after wrapping up her record-setting 328-day mission in space.

The results are finally in for the first chocolate chip cookie bake-off in space. While looking more or less normal, the best cookies required two hours of baking time last month up at the International Space Station. It takes far less time on Earth, under 20 minutes. And how do they taste? No one knows. Still sealed in individual baking…

Spacewalking astronauts had to make do with fewer lights and camera views from one helmet Wednesday while performing critical battery work outside the International Space Station.

It was the second pairing of NASA’s Jessica Meir and Christina Koch outside the orbiting lab. Last October, they teamed up for the world’s first all-female spacewalk.

Two U.S. agencies say the decade that just ended was by far the hottest ever measured on Earth, capped off by the second-warmest year on record. And scientists say there is no doubt at all this is man-made climate change.

Collins Aerospace, in Windsor Locks, signed a contract with NASA on Tuesday to build critical components for the Orion spacecraft fleet.

During his junior year at Scarsdale High School in New York, Wolf Cukier landed a two-month internship with NASA. So during the summer of 2019, he traveled down to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. His first assignment was to examine variations in star brightness captured by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, known as TESS, as a part...

A U.S. astronaut set a record Saturday for the longest single spaceflight by a woman, breaking the old mark of 288 days with about two months left in her mission. Christina Koch, a 40-year-old electrical engineer from Livingston, Montana, arrived at the International Space Station on March 14. She broke the record set by former space station commander Peggy Whitson…

Ever wonder how astronauts celebrate Christmas in space? Well, the crew onboard the International Space Station shared a video showing how they are enjoying the holiday season.