Blue Origin scored a major win with its New Glenn rocket launch, but SpaceX still leads the space industry with a Falcon ...

Astronaut Leroy Chiao was flying his private plane back from Colorado after refuelling in Texas when he was nearly taken out by two orb-shaped objects last August. Chiao has admitted that he has ...

Photo Courtesy of Dr. Leroy Chiao. “That’s what it made me think of. I wonder, ‘Gosh, I wonder if this is the same thing.’” The mystery that followed the astronaut’s near-miss ...

The former NASA astronaut who nearly collided with a pair ... “They came right at me,” Dr. Leroy Chiao, who was the commander of Expedition 10, said of the “perfectly smooth” spheres ...

"Inspiration is something that is intangible," argues Prof Coates. Leroy Chiao, a retired Nasa astronaut who went on three flights to space in the 1990s and 2000s on Nasa's Space Shuttle and to ...

On Christmas Eve, an autonomous spacecraft flew past the Sun, closer than any human-made object before it. Swooping through the atmosphere, Nasa's Parker Solar Probe was on a mission to discover more ...

Leroy Chiao at the world premiere of "The Astronaut Farmer." (photo credit: s_bukley. Via Shutterstock) Former NASA astronaut Dr. Leroy Chiao reported a close encounter with unidentified flying ...

A former astronaut who spent 15 years with NASA says he came into contact with mysterious metallic orbs while flying a plane last summer. Leroy Chiao says he still doesn't know exactly what he saw.