The “alien” is actually a potato. Specifically, it is a purple tuber nicknamed Spudnik-1, grown and photographed by Pettit.

NASA's powerful Launch Abort System, designed to outrun an exploding rocket, is the result of years of work from scientists ...

Through 2030, governments and private entities have planned more than 400 missions in the next two decades to fly past or ...

The next U.S. trip to the moon isn't about planting a flag. It's about learning how to live and work there. NASA has just ...

NASA's Artemis 2 will send four astronauts to circle the moon without landing on it. The mission will set the stage for a ...

A 'space potato' grown aboard the ISS went viral for its alien look, but NASA astronaut Don Pettit says it highlights future ...

New Images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and James Webb Space Telescope show Saturn in both infrared and visible light.

A strange, tentacled object floating aboard the International Space Station recently sent the internet into a frenzy, with ...

Revealing the limitations of cloning, researchers who repeatedly cloned mice for two decades have discovered that such serial duplication triggers grave genetic mutations that accumulate over the ...

NASA’s new chief is reshaping the space agency’s goals, unveiling an ambitious vision that includes revamped plans for a moon ...

New Discoveries Reshaping Our Understanding of the Solar System. It feels like every few months, we get some new information ...

But sometimes the most fascinating way to explore history is by asking a simple question: what if things had gone differently ...