K NOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) - Butch Wilmore, a Tennessee native and a graduate of both the University of Tennessee and Tennessee ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — One of NASA’s two previously stuck astronauts has retired from the space agency, less than five ...

Barry “Butch” Wilmore has flown on the space shuttle, a Russian Soyuz, Boeing’s Starliner and a SpaceX Crew Dragon. After 25 ...

As Greenland's ice retreats, it's fueling tiny ocean organisms. To test why, scientists turned to a computer model from JPL ...

Get ready for the Perseid meteor shower, peaking on August 12th and 13th, 2025. This celestial event promises a spectacular ...

Astronaut Scott Kelly posted this photo, taken from the International Space Station during his year-long space mission, to social media on July 19, 2015, with the caption, "Day 114. #Moon #Venus ...

Wilmore earned a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from Tennessee Tech and a master’s degree in aviation systems from the University of Tennessee.

Astronaut and University of Tennessee graduate Barry “Butch” Wilmore has announced his retirement from NASA. The news comes months after he and fellow Astronaut Suni Williams returned ...

NASA's announcement that it will accelerate the Fission Surface Power program, targeting deployment of a 100-kilowatt nuclear reactor on the moon by ...

The apple of Loeb’s eye is a 6-12 mi.-wide rocky body discovered on July 1 with a telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, that is part of NASA’s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) survey ...

The M4.4 solar flare unleashed a coronal mass ejection (CME) into space — and Earth might just receive a glancing blow.

The 1981 Mt. Juliet High School graduate has logged 464 days in space over three flights during his NASA career.