NASA moves up operation due to power system failure at International Space Station; Jessica Meir, whose father is Israeli, to take part

In 'milestone' for women in space, Jessica Meir and Christina Koch to venture out on October 21 to work on International Space Station's solar power system

Jessica Meir, UAE's Hazzaa Ali Almansoori and Oleg Skripochka of Russia enter orbit after taking off from Kazakhstan; will join 6 other astronauts aboard space station

UAE's Hazzaa al-Mansoori ready for takeoff alongside Jewish astronaut Jessica Meir, whose father is Israeli

Exoplanet 110 light-years away has temperatures conducive to life, but scientists say conditions still vastly different than Earth

US space administration's exoplanet-hunting telescope finds new solar system, including 3 planets orbiting a star about a third of sun’s mass and 40% cooler

Hunk of rock that streaked by the planet was detected mere hours before flyby, 'would have gone off like a very large nuclear weapon'

Jules Bergman, a charismatic television reporter, covered all NASA’s 54 manned space flights during his lifetime

On July 20, 1969, the world came to a standstill as millions tuned in to watch Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin set foot on the moon

Diary that survived space shuttle crash displayed alongside and compared to fragments of biblical Book of Enoch