The science and mathematics behind what keeps the ISS in orbit goes all the way back to ... where meteors from space burn up — when we see a shooting star, it's a grain of cosmic dust burning ...

Don Pettit, a NASA astronaut, engineer, and photographer, recently returned to the International Space Station for his fourth mission, bringing along a homemade orbital sidereal tracker—a device ...

NASA astronauts Nichole Ayers and Anne McClain were the latest to share images of lightning as seen from 250 miles above ...

Ask any astronaut about the pleasures of spending time aboard the International Space Station (ISS ... many of the other aurora clips we’ve seen in recent years, with the lush green colors ...

You can see the International Space Station (ISS ... depending on your location and the orbit of the ISS. NASA's spot the station widget (below) is a great tool for quickly finding out upcoming ...

NASA pilot Nichole Ayers shared more stunning photos from the International Space Station, this time showing a sunrise from ...

Had the ISS maintained its typical orbit, it would have come within 2.5 ... to shelter in various docked spacecraft as they waited to see whether the debris would cause material risk to the ...

The perspective is what astronauts would see out their window if there was an International Space Station flying around the ...

"The rain gets harder, if you like, during a solar maximum," so pieces of debris are more likely to cross the low ISS orbit, he said. "You'd expect to see more maneuvers during the solar maximum." ...