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NASA has confirmed that a spacecraft has made the closest approach to the sun. Earlier this week, the Parker Solar Probe passed within a mere 3.8 million miles of the sun. Space agency officials received an all-clear message Thursday night confirming Parker survived the journey. The spacecraft was launched in 2018 to get a close-up look at the sun. It’ll...

A NASA spacecraft is about to make the closest approach to the sun. The Parker Solar Probe was launched in 2018 to get a close-up look at the sun.

Earth — and her hometown of Needham, Massachusetts — is going to have to wait a little longer before astronaut Sunita Williams returns from space.

In Suni Williams’ hometown of Needham, Massachusetts, residents are digesting the latest delay in the astronaut’s homecoming — she’ll end up being in space for the better part of a year. 

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Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams planned on being away just a week or so when they blasted off June 5.

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NASA’s two stuck astronauts just got their space mission extended again.

NASA announced Thursday that the next Artemis mission, which will send four astronauts on a flight around the moon, will be delayed until 2026.

NASA has announced more delays in sending astronauts back to the moon more than 50 years after Apollo. Administrator Bill Nelson said Thursday that the next mission in the Artemis program is now targeted for April 2026.

Known across the globe as the stuck astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams hit the six-month mark in space Thursday with two more to go. The pair rocketed into orbit on June 5, the first to ride Boeing’s new Starliner crew capsule on what was supposed to be a weeklong test flight. They arrived at the International Space Station the…

Jared Isaacman, 41, CEO and founder of a card-processing company, has been a close collaborator with Elon Musk ever since buying his first chartered flight with SpaceX.

The space station crew will feast on smoked turkey, apple cobbler, green beans, mushrooms and mashed potatoes, Williams told NBC News in an interview from orbit.

Hundreds of people in Needham, Massachusetts, are showing support for one of their own, sending love to NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, who has been stuck on the International Space Station for almost six months.

The Town of Needham is showing support for astronaut Sunita Williams. The Needham native has been stuck on the International Space Station for almost six months.

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NASA is trying to shut down rumors surrounding the health of two astronauts who have been stuck in space for months.

Four astronauts are back on Earth after a space station mission that lasted almost eight months.

NASA is no stranger to spacefaring robots. But “Robonaut 2,” the first human-shaped robot to fly to the International Space Station, is something special. The robot is now on display at the Udvar-Hazy center in Virginia.

Italian luxury fashion house Prada and space startup company Axiom Space unveiled the designs for a spacesuit that will be worn in the first NASA landing mission to the moon since 1972.

Two Oort Cloud comets are making a pass through the solar system for the first time in documented human history.

Prada and Houston-based startup Axiom Space unveiled the design of a spacesuit that will be used for NASA’s Artemis 3 mission to the moon.

NASA launched a spacecraft to see if one of Jupiter’s moons can sustain life.