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Read the latest national and world news, including stories from Newsday's reporters in Washington, D.C. Young brother and sister dead, several hurt when vehicle crashes into Michigan birthday ... Read More

Japanese astronaut will be first non-American on the Moon, Nasa says

Japanese astronaut will be first non-American on the Moon, Nasa says - Land of the Rising Sun to land on the Moon after historic agreement ... Read More

World News

By Lara Jakes Horses Run Loose Through Central London in Surreal Spectacle Having a team in the world’s richest sports ... Al-Shifa Hospital lies in ruins after a battle there between Israeli ... Read More

Solar eclipse 2024: Former NASA astronaut shares what it looks like from space, how to safely view it yourself

Former NASA astronaut Terry Virts spoke with Fox News Digital ahead of this year’s solar eclipse to detail his experience in space — and what it was like to witness one while on a space flight. Read More

Russian Soyuz spacecraft brings crew of 3, including NASA astronaut, back to Earth

A Russian Soyuz ferry ship undocked from the International Space Station and flew back to Earth early Saturday, bringing a Russian cosmonaut, a Belarusian guest flier and a NASA astronaut to a ... Read More

NASA astronaut from Camas shares what its like to be in space, what Earth looks like from rocket

SEATTLE — We recently had the chance to talk with astronaut ... There's no other place like nasa, where you bring all those skills to bear and you use them all the time. Taylor: You arrived in ... Read More

NASA pics capture mysterious ‘surfboard’ orbiting the moon: ‘Exquisite timing’

NASA photographed a sliver of a mysterious, surfboard-shaped object near the surface of the moon last month, images released by the space agenc ... from the comic book world or superhero movies ... Read More

Russian Soyuz Spacecraft With 3 Astronauts Docks at the International Space Station

The Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft carrying NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson, Russian Oleg Novitsky and Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus reached the space outpost after ... will complete a year-long mission ... Read More

Space and Astronomy

That could be good news for the fate of the universe. He arranged for artists to have access to astronauts ... other astronomical and space event that’s out of this world. Read More

Multinational team safely returns to Earth from the International Space Station

April 6 (UPI) --NASA astronaut ... Space Station. The trio landed near Karaganda, Kazakhstan, at 3:17 a.m. EDT after spending 3.5 hours aboard a Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft, the Russian news agency ... Read More

NASA astronaut Eileen Collins shares stories at Women in Space event

Collins answered questions from the crowd — including a question about astronaut ice cream — after discussing her path to NASA and sharing stories about life on the International Space Station ... Read More