"As we went over Mexico and the U.S. this morning, I caught this sprite," the former collegiate volleyball player said Ayers is aboard the International Space Station as pilot of SpaceX Dragon's ...

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NASA astronaut Nichole "Vapor" Ayers, currently serving as a flight engineer on Expedition 73 aboard the International Space Station (ISS), is one of a handful of astronauts testing various ...

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An astronaut on the International Space Station has captured a rare kind of lightning called a sprite while traveling 250 miles above the Texas–Mexico border. Referred to as “space lightning” and ...

An astronaut aboard the International Space Station has shared a striking photo of what is known as a Transient Luminous Event seen above a thunderstorm over Mexico and the Desert Southwest earlier in ...

DENVER (KDVR) — From Colorado Springs to space, Major Nichole "Vapor" Ayers is living out a childhood dream of being an astronaut. A graduate of Woodland Park High School and the Air Force Academy, ...

NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers has shared a mesmerizing view of an aurora on Earth Day. Ayers, who arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) on her first orbital mission last month, posted the ...

NASA is making final preparations for its first spacewalk since January. It’ll also be the first all-female spacewalk since November 2023 and only the fifth in NASA’s history. Astronauts Anne McClain ...

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See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. New video footage (shown above) from space showing Aurora Borealis over ...