The Boeing Starliner prepares to dock at the International Space Station on Friday. NASA via AP hide caption
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A full moon rises behind the high voltage towers of the El Avila in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, May 15. People in the Americas, Europe and Africa had a chance to see the total lunar eclipse that began Sunday night. Matias Delacroix/AP hide caption
Researchers Robert Ferl and Anna-Lisa Paul. Tyler Jones/UF/IFAS hide caption
A mural of Elon Musk in downtown Brownsville by Alexander Gonzalez-Hernandez. Gaige Davila/ Texas Public Radio hide caption
"It's the dawn of a new era of black hole physics," the Event Horizon Telescope team said as it released the first-ever image of supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way. EHT Collaboration hide caption
A mural of Elon Musk in downtown Brownsville by Alexander Gonzalez-Hernandez. Gaige Davila/ Texas Public Radio hide caption
SpaceX's plans to launch near Brownsville, Texas, have sent house prices sky high
Light shines from a total lunar eclipse over Santa Monica Beach, Calif., in May 2021. Ringo H.W. Chiu/AP hide caption
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center early Friday morning. This time exposure image captured the 'space jellyfish" effect of the contrail viewed from Port Canaveral Marine. The white streak on the horizon was caused by light from a cruise ship coming into port. Malcolm Denemark/Florida Today/USA Today Network via Reuters hide caption
In this photo made available by NASA, commercial crew astronauts, from left, European Space Agency astronaut Matthias Maurer, and NASA astronauts Tom Marshburn, Raja Chari, and Kayla Barron, pose for a photo in their Dragon spacesuits during a fit check aboard the International Space Station's Harmony module on April 21, 2022. AP hide caption
The sun emits a mid-level solar flare releasing a burst of solar material. NASA hide caption
NASA's Perseverance rover took this "selfie" next to a rock where it drilled for samples. NASA wants to bring samples collected by this rover back to Earth. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS hide caption
NASA is bringing rocks back from Mars, but what if those samples contain alien life?
In 2021, a partial solar eclipse is visible in Lewes, Del. This Saturday, people in the Southern Hemisphere will get a chance to glimpse the phenomenon. Aubrey Gemignani/NASA via Getty Images hide caption
An image of the planet Uranus taken by the spacecraft Voyager 2 as it flew by in January 1986. NASA/JPL hide caption
The SpaceX crew seated in the Dragon spacecraft earlier this month in Cape Canaveral, Fla. SpaceX/AP hide caption
A probe that will land on Saturn's moon Enceladus, seen here in false color, is one of the priorities outlined in the new report. NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute hide caption
NASA advisers call for a visit to Uranus, plus more science during moon landings
Chinese astronaut Ye Guangfu sits outside the return capsule of the Shenzhou-13 space mission after landing at the Dongfeng landing site in northern China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on Saturday. Cai Yang/Xinhua via AP hide caption
These images show how comet C/2014 UN271's nucleus was isolated from a shell of dust and gas (a coma) surrounding the solid nucleus. At left is a photo of the comet taken by the Hubble telescope on Jan. 8. A model of the coma (middle) was obtained by fitting the surface brightness profile assembled from the left image. This permitted the coma to be subtracted, revealing the nucleus's pointy glow. Space Telescope Science Institute/Macau University of Science and Technology hide caption
The Hubble telescope confirms the largest comet nucleus ever seen by astronomers
The SpaceX crew is seated in the Dragon spacecraft on Friday, in Cape Canaveral, Fla., before their launch to the International Space Station. SpaceX via AP hide caption
In this photo taken from video footage released by the Roscosmos Space Agency, three Russian cosmonauts sport yellow spacesuits upon arriving on the International Space Station. A NASA astronaut now says it was not in support for Ukraine, but for the Russians' university school colors. Roscosmos/AP hide caption
This image of the United States at night is a composite assembled from data acquired by satellite in April and October 2012. NASA Earth Observatory hide caption
The International Space Station in orbit on May 23, 2011. Paolo Nespoli - ESA/NASA via Getty Images hide caption
An octopus named Lizbeth is helping scientists study distributed intelligence in a lab in the San Juan Islands. OPB hide caption
Expedition 66 crew members (left to right) Mark Vande Hei of NASA and cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov of Roscosmos are seen inside their Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft after it landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan on Wednesday in Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan. Bill Ingalls/NASA/Getty Images hide caption