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The Geminids have returned and are set to peak next week.

It’s the first time the downtown stadium will have turned a profit since the San Antonio Spurs left the building for a new East Side arena in 2002.

Astronomers have discovered six planets orbiting a bright, nearby star in perfect synchrony like a grand cosmic orchestra.

Scientists have discovered the oldest black hole yet, formed a mere 470 million years after the Big Bang.

Ken Mattingly, an astronaut who is best remembered for his efforts on the ground that helped bring the damaged Apollo 13 spacecraft safely back to Earth, has died.

The little asteroid visited by NASA's Lucy spacecraft this week had a big surprise for scientists _ a mini moon.

NASA's Lucy spacecraft has encountered the first of 10 asteroids on its long journey out to Jupiter.

With last year’s undersea volcano injecting massive amounts of water high into the atmosphere, scientists were bracing for a big Antarctica ozone hole this fall.

A NASA spacecraft has rocketed away on a six-year journey to a rare asteroid made of metal.

A new study finds that four dozen Antarctic ice shelves have shrunk by at least 30% since 1997 and 28 of those have lost more than half of their ice in that time.

NASA is showing off its first asteroid samples delivered last month by a spacecraft.

Tens of millions in the Americas are getting front-row seats for a rare “ring of fire” eclipse of the sun.

Russia’s space agency says there's been a leak in a backup coolant line at the International Space Station.

The final supermoon of the year will light up the night sky in the early morning hours this Friday, Sept. 29.

A NASA astronaut and two Russians are back on Earth after being stuck in space for just over a year.

A space capsule carrying NASA’s first asteroid samples has landed in the Utah desert.

Planet Earth is about to receive the biggest sample yet from an asteroid.

During the annular eclipse on Oct. 14, the moon will pass in front of the sun, creating a halo or ‘ring of fire’ in the sky.

NASA says the study of UFOs will require new scientific techniques, including advanced satellites as well as a shift in how unidentified flying objects are perceived.

The outer bands of Hurricane Lee are starting to lash Bermuda as big surf pounded the island, with the Category 2 storm expected to make landfall on the coast of New England or Atlantic Canada over the weekend.

NASA astronaut Frank Rubio now holds the record for the longest U.S. spaceflight.

Hondo residents woke up to an unusual thunderous sound that rattled some houses on Saturday morning.

SpaceX’s Dragon Endeavour streaked across the Florida sky before splashing down off the coast of Jacksonville early Monday, bringing four astronauts safely back to Earth after a six-month mission at the International Space Station.

Four astronauts are back on Earth after a six-month stay at the International Space Station.

Four astronauts from four countries are rocketing toward the International Space Station.

Four astronauts will have to wait an extra day to get to space.

The four astronauts assigned to fly around the moon next year have gotten their first look at their spacecraft.

Already running years behind, Boeing's first astronaut flight is now off until at least next March.

NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft is back in contact again, after flight controllers corrected a mistake that had led to weeks of silence.

A current and former NASA astronaut visited Texas Children’s Hospital recently and got to hang out with patients at Texas Children’s Cancer and Hematology Center.

NASA says it has heard from its Voyager 2 spacecraft after a wrong command cut off communications.

NASA is listening for any peep from Voyager 2 after losing contact with the spacecraft billions of miles away.

A NASA power outage has disrupted communication between Mission Control and the International Space Station.

A highly technical process is underway in Los Angeles to put NASA's retired Space Shuttle Endeavour on display in the vertical launch position complete with external tank and two solid rocket boosters.

Calling all space enthusiasts! The International Space Station will be flying overhead Wednesday evening and if you time it right, you could see it float across the San Antonio sky.

The Webb Space Telescope is marking one year of cosmic photographs with one of its best yet.

Astronomers have discovered the most distant black hole yet using NASA's Webb Space Telescope.

A European space telescope has blasted off to explore the mysterious and invisible realm known as the dark universe.

Saturn has a fresh new look thanks to NASA's Webb Space Telescope.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) officials said five asteroids will pass directly by Earth Friday and Saturday, including one the space agency redirected last September.

The latest challenge to lithium mining in Nevada in the push for cleaner energy comes from a place where no opposition has arisen before: space.

Venus, the hottest planet in the solar system, has been shining bright just after dusk and on Sunday, June 4, it will reach its highest point in the sky lending to a spectacular evening of viewing (if clouds cooperate.)

A new work by U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón, written for an upcoming NASA mission, is a glance at outer space that returns back to Earth.

NASA is publicly addressing the subject of UFOs a year after launching a study into unexplained sightings.

A private crew is back on Earth after a nine-day trip to the International Space Station.

The SpaceX Crew Dragon Axiom Mission 2 will dock at the International Space Station on Monday.

Jeff Bezos' rocket company has won a NASA contract to land astronauts on the moon, two years after losing out to SpaceX.

A new study suggests water on Mars may be more widespread and recent than previously thought.

Vice President Kamala Harris kicked off the state visit of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol with a tour of a NASA facility as the Biden administration looks to deepen ties with a close ally that it sees as only growing in importance in an increasingly complicated Indo-Pacific.

A Japanese company’s spacecraft apparently crashed while attempting to land on the moon.

An old NASA satellite that studied the sun has plunged back to Earth.

An old NASA satellite is expected to fall to Earth.

Somewhere in a remote stretch of forest near Maine’s border with Canada, rocks from space crashed to Earth and may be scattered across the ground — just waiting to be picked up.

NASA has named the four astronauts who will fly around the moon late next year.

Boeing's first launch of astronauts has been delayed again, this time until July.

An asteroid big enough to wipe out a city will zip harmlessly between Earth and the moon's orbit this weekend.

Moonwalking astronauts will have sleeker, more flexible spacesuits that come in different sizes when they step onto the lunar surface later this decade.

In a story published March 14, 2023, about the release of a Webb Space Telescope image, The Associated Press, relying on information from NASA, erroneously reported the location of the pictured star.

Four space station astronauts are back on Earth after a quick SpaceX flight home.

SpaceX has launched four astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA.

With more lunar missions than ever on the horizon, the European Space Agency wants to give the moon its own time zone.

Russia has launched a rescue ship for two cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut whose original ride sprang a dangerous leak at the International Space Station.

Astronomers have discovered what appear to be massive galaxies dating back to within 600 million years of the Big Bang.

Russian space officials say a coolant leak from an uncrewed Russian supply ship docked at the International Space Station has resulted from an external impact and not a manufacturing flaw.

Experts believe the meteor measured about two feet in diameter and weighed about one-thousand pounds.

The Russian space corporation and NASA say a coolant leak has occurred on an uncrewed Russian supply ship docked at the International Space Station.

SpaceX is a big step closer to sending its giant Starship spacecraft into orbit, completing an engine-firing test at the launch pad.

Astronomers have discovered 12 new moons around Jupiter, putting the total count at a record-breaking 92.

A comet that hasn’t been seen since the ice age will be visible in the northern hemisphere in January and early February.

Twenty years ago, NASA’s Columbia space shuttle crashed to the Earth, killing all seven astronauts on board and sending debris scattered across 200 miles. San Antonio Fire Department Chief Charles Hood was deployed to search for that crucial debris.

A comet is streaking back our way after 50,000 years.

NASA is marking the 20th anniversary of the space shuttle Columbia tragedy with somber ceremonies during its annual tribute to fallen astronauts.

An asteroid the size of a delivery truck will whip past Earth on Thursday night, one of the closest encounters ever recorded.

The first Native American woman in space has ventured out on her first spacewalk.

Space lovers unite! The International Space Station will be passing through the South Central Texas sky Sunday evening.

The comet is the expected to make its closest pass of Earth sometime between Feb. 1 and 2, possibly even sooner sometime at the end of January.

Scientists at NASA have discovered a new Earth-sized planet orbiting the habitable zone of its star.

Texas, and more specifically some areas of San Antonio and the Hill Country, have the rare luck of seeing two solar eclipses within six months.

NASA has been tracking the hole in the ozone layer over Antartica since the 1980s, monitoring it as it slowly grew. However, a new report headed by the United Nations shows that the hole is actually shrinking, and on track to recover to 1980′s levels by the year 2040 -- and in the most damaged areas, by 2066.

Government science teams say that 2022 didn't quite set a record for heat, but it was in the top five or six warmest on record depending on who's doing the measuring.

Russia will send up a new capsule next month to bring back three space station astronauts whose original ride home was damaged.

After almost 40 years circling Earth, a NASA satellite has plunged harmlessly through the atmosphere.

A retired science satellite is about to fall from the sky but NASA says the chance of wreckage falling on anybody is “very low.”.

A comet that hasn’t been seen since the ice age will be visible in the northern hemisphere in January and early February.

Walter Cunningham, the last surviving astronaut from the first successful crewed space mission in NASA’s Apollo program, has died.

It could be the end of the red dusty line for NASA's InSight lander on Mars.

A U.S.-French satellite that will map almost all of the world's surface water has rocketed into orbit.

A Russian space official says a coolant leak from a Russian space capsule attached to the International Space Station could have been caused by a micrometeorite strike.

NASA and Russia’s space agency canceled a spacewalk by two Russian cosmonauts just as they were preparing to exit the International Space Station.

A NASA rover on Mars by chance had its microphone on when a whirling tower of red dust passed overhead last year and caught the sound.

NASA’s Orion capsule is back from the moon.

Half a century after U.S. astronauts brought it back from the moon’s surface, a minute piece of extraterrestrial rock has finally reached its intended destination, the east Mediterranean island nation of Cyprus.

NASA's Orion capsule is on its way home from the moon to wrap up a three-week test flight.

An Our Lady of the Lake alum reflects on advice that blasted off her career as a NASA employee, connecting her to the launch of Artemis I.

NASA is canceling a planned satellite that was going to intensely monitor greenhouse gases over the Americas because it got too costly and complicated.

NASA's Orion capsule is now circling the moon in an orbit stretching tens of thousands of miles.

NASA's new Webb Space Telescope is finding bright, early galaxies that until now have been hidden from view.

A space capsule is hurtling toward the moon for the first time in 50 years.

NASA has managed to plug a leak while fueling its new moon rocket for a middle-of-the-night launch.

NASA is making another attempt to launch its new moon rocket on its first test flight.