Ships of the Sunrise class will presumably make many more trips into space. They could be used as forerunners of long-lived satellite stations, or as orbital launching platforms for shots at the ...

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Scott Kelly photographs his last sunrise from the International Space Station before returning to Earth after spending a year in space, on March 1, 2016.

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Kelly and Kornienko launched to the space station on March 27, 2015, for their one-year mission. Kelly surpassed the previous record for time spent in space by a U.S. astronaut on Oct. 16, 2015.

Stunning photos from the International Space Station showthe Earth below from sunrise to sunset. But what takes half a day on Earthlasted less than one hour for astronaut photographers on the station.

NASA has plans to study hazardous space weather events in more detail than ever before, using a group of six small satellites in a project called SunRISE.

The first of six SunRISE SmallSats is shown here at a Utah State University Space Dynamics Laboratory clean room being worked on by engineers. Pointed toward the camera is the SmallSat’s Sun ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A robotic lander in space just shot an astounding video of lunar sunrise as it zooms toward ...

SunRISE shows that an Explorer Mission of Opportunity can answer fundamental questions in heliophysics, with implications for space weather prediction, and serve as a pathfinder for small satellite ...

American astronaut is set to return to Earth tonight after a year in space. — -- Scott Kelly was greeted with a spectacular sunrise this morning, marking the end of his one-year mission at ...