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Space is beautiful. It is full of color and light. Photographers capture this beauty. They take photos of planets and galaxies. They show us glowing moons. They take pictures of space travelers, too. Space photos show us other worlds. Here…
Becoming an astronaut isn’t easy. To do the job, people have to go through a difficult program. It’s called the Astronaut Candidate Program. NASA selects new applicants every few years. Last year, the agency chose 10 new people (pictured above)…
Astronomers have a new way to study space. It is the world’s largest digital camera. It is called the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) camera. It is part of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. The observatory sits atop…
Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are NASA astronauts. They spent more than nine months in space. They didn’t plan for the trip to be so long. But they’re finally home. On June 5, 2024, Williams and Wilmore blasted off.…
On September 12, Jared Isaacman and Sarah Gillis made history. They became the first civilians to perform a spacewalk. Past spacewalks had been done only by professional astronauts. During a spacewalk, an astronaut leaves a spacecraft. They do not actually…
When people go on a space mission, they sometimes go outside the spacecraft. This is called a spacewalk. Read about four noteworthy spacewalks in history. First Spacewalk On March 18, 1965, cosmonaut Alexei Leonov (above) floated outside Russia’s Voskhod 2…
Here, teams from Boeing and NASA tend to the Starliner spacecraft. It returned to Earth on September 6. It landed in White Sands Space Harbor, in New Mexico. The Starliner arrived without its crew members. They are at the International…
Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are astronauts. They blasted into space on June 5. They were flying in NASA’s new Starliner spacecraft. The mission was supposed to last eight days. But the Starliner faced problems. It arrived at the…
On April 8, crowds gathered across the United States to see a solar eclipse. People wore special glasses. They watched the moon pass in front of the sun. The eclipse could be seen in 15 states. Millions viewed the rare…
All kinds of human-made objects are circling the planet. Can you guess how many? The answer is 100 trillion! There are 9,000 active satellites. The rest of the objects are things such as used-up rockets, bolts, and paint chips. All…
