New Hampshire teacher Christa McAuliffe and other astronauts were honored Thursday by NASA during its Day of Remembrance.

It was a cloudy Saturday morning on the Space Coast when 12-year-old Tal Ramon anxiously waited with his family for the ...

It took a quarter of a century, but artist Mikael Genberg may finally see his dream realized: a red Swedish house, on the ...

Molly Jennis (Terri Weagant) is the lonely astronaut in question. She’s embarked on an eight-month solo flight to Mars in the ...

On November 3rd, 1957, the Soviet Union made history by launching the first living creature into Earth’s orbit: not a human, ...

Now, earth-bound people can experience a part of space without committing to the years of training required to become an astronaut. In 2008, NASA wanted to prepare astronauts in every possible way ...

An astronaut has shown a stark view of the Californian wildfires from aboard the International Space Station (ISS). American spaceman Don Pettit snapped images of the region at night and shared ...

The Neutral Buoyancy Lab in Houston, Texas holds over 6 million gallons of water. That’s 9 Olympic swimming pools in a 4-story deep, indoor lake where the world’s astronauts train on an exact replica ...

The world's first wooden satellite has officially been deployed. Built by the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the timber-clad device was sent to International Space Station last ...

Image: Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore on the International Space Station in September. Pic: NASA Two NASA astronauts who have been stuck on the International Space Station since June 2024 have ...

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During his most recent stay at the space station in 2021, the French astronaut went to great lengths to ensure that he could capture some breathtakingly beautiful images of Earth from orbit.