Pettit posted his striking footage on social media on Tuesday. The American astronaut used a wide-angle lens to get the ...

A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off on Monday night, sending four amateur astronauts on an unprecedented journey around Earth’s ...

SpaceX is sharing the first look at the vast expanse of ice layering Earth's poles after launching the private Fram2 mission, ...

A bitcoin investor is headed to space with three polar explorers on the first flight to carry people over the North and South ...

Mikkelsen, the first Norwegian bound for space, has flown over the poles before, but at a much lower altitude. She was part ...

SpaceX launched the private Fram2 mission Monday (March 31), sending a crew of four spaceflight rookies into an orbit never ...

We often focus on space observatories that peer beyond Earth. But the vast majority of satellites stare right back at us.

Chun Wang, a Chinese-born crypto entrepreneur, paid an undisclosed amount for the mission. Some satellites are already in polar orbit, and researchers called it a routine flight.

No one saw Earth's poles from space in the more than 400 human spaceflight missions preceding Fram2. The closest any crew ...

The crew will observe Earth's polar regions 430 kilometers above the surface, allowing the Crew Dragon Resilience to travel ...