New space record set for crew in Earth orbit
For a brief time on Tuesday, there were more people in Earth orbit than ever before. With 11 people aboard the International Space Station (ISS) until just a few hours…
Watch a cosmonaut hurl a piece of ISS garbage into the abyss
Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin embarked on a spacewalk at the International Space Station (ISS) at 4 p.m. ET on Wednesday to relocate an experiment airlock from the…
How to watch Friday’s historic spacewalk at the ISS
NASA astronaut Steve Bowen and his United Arab Emirates counterpart Sultan Alneyadi are making final preparations for a spacewalk at the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday, April 28. Alneyadi…
NASA and Boeing reveal new date for first crewed Starliner flight
NASA and Boeing had been hoping to perform the first crewed flight of the Starliner spacecraft next month, but on Wednesday they announced the mission will now take place no…
A crew capsule just landed on Earth. But why was it empty?
Soyuz spacecraft regularly bring home crew from the International Space Station (ISS), but the one that returned on Tuesday had three empty seats. In what’s thought to be the first…
NASA may use a ‘space tug’ to decommission the space station
NASA is aiming to build a special spacecraft capable of guiding the International Space Station to a safe deorbit position when it’s decommissioned in 2030. Details of the plan were…
NASA targets today for Crew-5 astronauts’ journey home
SpaceX’s Crew-5 astronauts are aiming to depart the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday, bringing to an end a five-month stay aboard the facility. The current plan is for NASA…
Watch highlights of NASA’s second spacewalk of 2023
NASA has successfully completed its second spacewalk of the year at the International Space Station (ISS). NASA astronaut Nicole Mann and Japan’s Koichi Wakata of NASA counterpart JAXA spent 6…
SpaceX offers ride to Soyuz astronaut in case of ISS emergency
Russia’s Soyuz spacecraft suffered damage at the International Space Station (ISS) in December when a leak caused it to lose a large amount of coolant. Following an investigation, NASA and…
Astronaut’s stunning image of Key West looks like a painting
Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata has been showing off his photography skills, sharing some impressive shots taken from the International Space Station (ISS) as it orbited Earth on Sunday. The most…