NASA’s two stuck astronauts took their first spacewalk together Thursday, exiting the International Space Station almost eight months after moving in. Commander Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore removed a broken antenna and wiped the station’s exterior for evidence of any microbes that might still be alive after launching

Despite the statement from President Trump, NASA had already scheduled the astronauts' return for late March or April.

Last year, 2024, was the warmest year on record for the planet, easily breaking the previous record set just a year earlier.

Scientists from NASA and other institutions who have been analyzing the Bennu asteroid sample that returned to Earth last September found molecules, including amino acids, which are essential ingredients of life as we know it.

The discovery supports the theory that asteroids seeded life on Earth.

NASA is preparing the Orion spacecraft for its first crewed flight around the moon. Here's how astronauts will fly it.

Molecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five years ago.

All of its crew perished, including Israel’s first astronaut, Ilan Ramon. A former combat pilot in the Israeli Air Force, he was decorated for his role in the airstrike against Saddam Hussein’s nuclear reactor.

Apart from Shukla, the other astronauts on the mission are Commander Peggy Whitson, Mission Specialist Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski and Mission Specialist Tibor Kapu.

Apollo 14, the third U.S. mission to land on the moon, blasted off using a Saturn V rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.