The surprising origin of the term supermoon

British writer Samantha Harvey has won the Booker Prize for fiction with “Orbital,” a short, wonder-filled novel set aboard the International Space Station.

Astronomers say better catch this week's supermoon.

Scientists say a celestial object discovered decades ago is actually twins orbiting each other.

The latest solar storm has triggered northern lights farther south than normal including into parts of Germany, the United Kingdom, New England and New York City.

Space weather forecasters say a severe solar storm heading to Earth could stress power grids even more as the U.S. deals with major back-to-back hurricanes.

A rare, bright comet will be visible in October, clear skies permitting.

A spacecraft has blasted off to investigate the scene of a cosmic crash.

Orion Sun found solace amongst the works of Audre Lorde while working on her self-titled album.

Earth will have a temporary “mini moon” for two months.

The aurora borealis is continuing to dazzle viewers across the northern United States and Canada.

Get ready for a partial lunar eclipse and supermoon.

The first of four supermoons this year is about to rise.

Earth’s string of 13 straight months with a new average heat record came to an end in July.

A Texas church has not one — but two — members aboard the International Space Station.

The United Nations is calling for a flurry of efforts to reduce the human toll from soaring and searing temperatures in what it calls an extreme heat epidemic.

An asteroid will whiz harmlessly past Earth this weekend.

Bruce Butler, 37, is charged with capital murder. He is accused of shooting and killing Richard Nugent, 38, and RJ Lewis, 66, on June 2.

China’s Chang’e 6 probe has returned on Earth with rock and soil samples from the little-explored far side of the moon in a global first.

🌞 Happy Summer Solstice! 🌞Today marks the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere as the sun shines directly over the Tropic of Cancer. In Houston, we enjoy over 14 hours of sunshine today! While it's felt like summer for a while, we officially welcome astronomical summer with open arms.Enjoy the sunshine and share your summer plans with us! ☀️

Summer kicks off in the Northern Hemisphere with the summer solstice on Thursday.

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is sending science data again.

SpaceX’s mega Starship rocket has completed its first full test flight, returning to Earth without exploding after blasting off from Texas.

SpaceX’s mega Starship rocket has completed its first full test flight, returning to Earth without exploding after blasting off from Texas.

China says its spacecraft unfurled the country’s red and gold flag on the far side of the moon before lifting off with rock and soil samples to bring back to Earth.

New research indicates the sun's magnetic field originates much closer to the surface than previously thought.

The sun isn't done yet.

Houston residents have captured stunning photos of the northern lights amid a rare solar storm event.

NASA has finally heard back from Voyager 1 in a way that makes sense.

NASA is seeking a faster, cheaper way to bring rock samples from Mars to Earth.

The European climate agency says Earth was record hot for the 10th consecutive month in March.

Discover everything you need to know about the upcoming solar eclipse in 2024.

With an event as big as the moon passing in front of the sun, there are sure to be some myths lurking in the shadows.

NASA wants to come up with an out-of-this-world way to keep track of time, putting the moon on its own souped-up clock.

In videos submitted to KSAT Connect, viewers showed bright light emitting a circular smoke into the air

North America is on the verge of another masking of the sun during a total solar eclipse.

For the first time in history, world timekeepers may have to consider subtracting a second from our clocks in a few years because the planet is rotating a tad faster.

What type of eclipse it will be and where the eclipse will be is what makes this a rare event.

Space weather forecasters have issued a geomagnetic storm watch through Monday.

Landslides occur around the world and have helped shape the Earth as we know it.

Spring gets its official start Tuesday in the Northern Hemisphere.

If we get a new moon every month, why don't we have a solar eclipse every month?

Isn’t it interesting that someone can be both 80 years old and 20 years old all at the same time? Yup, it’s a real thing.

Scientists have confirmed what became of a star that exploded in a stunning supernova visible to Earth more than three decades ago.

An old Earth-observing satellite has fallen out of orbit and harmlessly burned up.

Turkey’s first astronaut has returned home to a hero’s welcome as a symbol of the country’s advances in technology and aerospace.

Astronauts from Turkey, Italy and Sweden are back on Earth, ending a private three-week trip to the International Space Station.

NASA's newest climate satellite has blasted off to survey the world's oceans and atmosphere in unprecedented detail.

Astronomers say an asteroid as big as a skyscraper will pass within 1.7 million miles of Earth on Friday.

While the U.S. is shivering through bone-chilling cold, most of the rest of world is feeling unusually warm weather.

A U.S. company's lunar lander will soon burn up in Earth's atmosphere after a failed moonshot.

2024 just started, and you may have heard that it is a leap year.

Here's what makes this year's winter solstice special this year!

A NASA telescope has captured the biggest solar flare in years, which temporarily knocked out radio communication on Earth.

The Geminid meteor shower peaks Wednesday and Thursday night

After U2 played spectacular shows at the newly minted Las Vegas Sphere, another classic rock band will take the stage to deliver an incredible show in technicolor visuals.

A new United Nations report calculates that the globe is speeding to 2.5 to 2.9 degrees Celsius (4.5 to 5.2 degrees Fahrenheit) of global warming since pre-industrial times, set to blow well past the agreed upon international climate threshold.

A new report details that ice sheets are melting quicker than expected and that the world will need to ramp up its climate efforts to avert disastrous sea level rise.

International Space Station is hovering over Houston on Nov. 16! Here’s what you should look for

French President Emmanuel Macron says melting glaciers pose “an unprecedented challenge for humanity.”.

The 12 months ending in October were the hottest ever recorded on Earth and likely the planet’s hottest 12-month period ever recorded, according to a report from the nonprofit science research group Climate Central.

October was the fifth straight month that Earth set a record for the hottest month in recorded history.

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.

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.

Two National Aeronautics and Space Administration employees won a top federal award on Oct. 17 for an asteroid deflection mission, according to NASA.

NASA's latest space mission launched Friday out of Kennedy Space Center. The mission is called 'Mission to Psyche' - Psyche is a metal based asteroid that scientist will study to understand the core of the Earth and other planets.

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

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

After a record-smashing hot summer, Earth's warming somehow got even worse in September.

You can experience the eclipse at one of several eclipse viewing events scheduled in the Houston area.

You can see a broadcast of the eclipse in all its fiery glory on a big, big screen during an eclipse viewing event organized by the Houston Museum of Natural Science.

The first asteroid sample collected in space by NASA has been successfully returned to Earth.

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

Inside, those who administer the world look for peace.

A new study of Earth's health says the planet is outside its “safe operating space for humanity” on six out of nine key measurements.

The U.N. weather agency says Earth endured its hottest Northern Hemisphere summer ever measured with a record warm August capping a season of brutal and deadly temperatures.

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

Wednesday night’s full moon will be spectacular for a number of reasons. It will appear bigger and brighter. We’ll have clear skies in Southeast Texas. And it has a unique name, Super Blue Moon. But how rare is it?

The Perseid meteor shower peaks this weekend.

Two Full Super Moons in August and what else to expect this month

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

Climate change’s sweaty fingerprints are all over the July heat waves gripping much of the globe.

Astronomers have discovered what could be two planets sharing the same orbit around their star.

Death Valley is putting a sizzling exclamation point on a record warm summer across the globe as it flirts with some of the hottest temperatures ever recorded.

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

Cities across China have opened their air raid shelters to offer residents relief from the heat as unusually high temperatures across parts of the country started claiming lives.

Worldwide temperatures briefly exceeded a key warming threshold earlier this month, drawing notice in the scientific community and prompting public chatter that climate change might be accelerating.

The cause of global warming is showing no signs of slowing as heat-trapping carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere has increased to record highs in its annual Spring peak.

A European spacecraft around Mars has sent its first livestream from the red planet to Earth to mark the 20th anniversary of its launch.

The year's first lunar eclipse is underway, and the best viewing is in Asia and Australia.

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

Never mind the models forecasting an El Nino, pretty clearly those warm Pacific waters are in place and will only get warmer as we move through the summer.

An intense solar storm has the northern lights gracing the skies farther south than usual.

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.

More than half a century later, the Apollo 13 mission continues to fascinate audiences.

A Russian spacecraft has safely returned to Earth without a crew months after suffering a coolant leak in orbit.

The Webb Space Telescope has found no evidence of an atmosphere at one of the seven rocky, Earth-sized planets orbiting a nearby star.

There's a special chance this week to see five planets lined up in the night sky.