The mission behind the first-ever spacewalk performed by a non-professional astronaut was completed Sunday when the Dragon capsule of SpaceX's Polaris Dawn mission splashed down off the coast of ...

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket visible as a streak of light from bottom right to top left. Don Pettit / NASA Blue Origin launched its New Glenn heavy-lift rocket for the first time last week ...

Don Pettit has been at it again. Not content with dazzling earthlings with incredible photos captured from his current home aboard the International Space Station (ISS), the NASA astronaut has now ...

Video posted to X on Saturday, January 18, shows NASA astronaut Don Pettit swapping a camera lense in zero-gravity conditions, letting the camera and the lenses hang in the air. Pettit regularly posts ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit also photographed the comet from space, highlighting its rarity and the challenges in capturing such a celestial event. Josh Durry was mesmerized by the comet’s ...

WATERBURY – It is with profound sadness and broken hearts that the family of Emily V. Pettit, age 80, of Waterbury, shares the news of her peaceful passing, surrounded by the love and comfort of ...

The brightest comet of the year, which has been lighting up the sky over the past week, may be in the process of breaking apart. The comet, named Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3), skirted three times ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit snapped a stunning shot of comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) as it raced past our planet for the first time in 160,000 years. The comet made its closest approach to Earth on ...

Comet C/2024 G3 ATLAS. Image: YouTube video screenshot/7EVEN Possibly the brightest comet of 2025, Comet C/2024 G3 ATLAS has been dazzling Southern Hemisphere skywatchers, including South Africans ...

SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn crew is home, capping off a five-day mission to orbit — which included the world’s first commercial spacewalk — by splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico. The Crew Dragon capsule ...