NOAA orders next generation of hurricane hunter aircraft

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced recently it awarded a contract to Georgia-based Lockheed Martin Aeronautics for two specialized C-130J Hercules aircraft. The planes are expected to join NOAA’s fleet by 2030.

Space station crew returns to Earth

NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson and Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub and Oleg Kononenko returned home from the International Space Station. Their Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft had a parachute-assisted landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan. Dyson concluded her fourth spaceflight with the landing of the Soyuz. Dyson's mission spanned 184 days, 2,944 orbits of the Earth, and a journey of 78 million miles. While on orbit, she conducted an array of experiments and technology demonstrations that contribute to advancements for humanity on Earth and NASA’s trajectory to the Moon and Mars.

Earth is getting a temporary second moon this fall

Earth will soon have a visitor — and not of the extraterrestrial kind. Astronomers found a small asteroid that will orbit our planet this fall, becoming a "mini-moon" temporarily.

Two NASA astronauts stuck on ISS give interview

Two NASA astronauts, Barry E. Wilmore and Sunita Williams, on board the International Space Station, gave an interview to media on Friday, discussing everything from voting from space to being stuck at the ISS for months into 2025.