The patch is supposed to commemorate progress in science and research made over the past year. Does imagery from a fictional universe — including that universe’s spherical symbol of evil — really accomplish that goal?
The Death Star, Millennium Falcon and Star Wars drones are all featured on the new CASIS ISS patch.
Hurricane Irma has powered up into a Category 5 storm as it batters the Caribbean. Here’s what it looks like from the air.
The ISS-CREAM was recently installed on the International Space Station and will monitor cosmic rain.
Space Station Mission Control at the Johnson Space Center in Houston is running on only essential employees.
NASA astronaut Jack Fischer gave a quick but full tour of the ISS.
NASA and SpaceX is scheduled to launch a resupply mission to the International Space Station Monday.
In the harsh environment of space, computers are highly vulnerable to degradation due to radiation. An experiment by the space agency and Hewlett Packard is hoping to change that.
SpaceX will launch a resupply mission to the International Space Station containing experiment supplies.
Even though they were first discovered — accidentally — 50 years ago, pulsars are still a source of mystery (and of course, emission pulses with precise and regular intervals).
The International Space Station travels hundreds of miles above the Earth but traveling there takes as long as it does to fly from New York to LA.
NASA is working on a new system of geometric shapes to create a new way to evaporate and filter liquid.
Google just released Street View in Maps of the international Space Station.
Humans will return to the moon and will finally land on Mars, according to U.S. Vice President Mike Pence.
Dragon was proven to be the only cargo spacecraft that can reenter Earth's orbit without burning up.
Astronauts monitor the organisms on the space station regularly to ensure that it's clean and nobody will get sick.
The International Space Station will host five artificial organs as astronauts perform experiments to see how they respond in microgravity.
NASA and other space authorities have launched some bizarre things into space in the last few decades, everything from a Buzz Lightyear figurine to a drawing of a penis.
Solar and lunar eclipses are visually stunning, but they also teach us a lot about the solar system and the universe.
Researchers predicted the lack of regular sunlight in space would lead to the body’s core temperature dropping, disrupting astronaut’s 24-hour internal clock.
The next space station might be built from recycled rockets, making space habitation more sustainable.
If humans start a Mars colony and live there for generations, will their descendants ever be able to visit Earth? Not if they eat too many insects along the way.