With Expedition 73 now underway, the International Space Station is hosting seven crewmembers again. Thursday saw the ...

A space probe called Kosmos 482 sent to explore Venus by the U.S.S.R. in 1972 but marooned in Earth orbit ever since is about ...

Don Pettit, NASA's oldest active astronaut, addressed his eventful return to Earth. Shortly after the spacecraft touched down ...

The lander section of the Kosmos 482 probe was launched in 1972 and designed to survive on Venus. Now it's due a fiery ...

NASA's oldest full-time astronaut is back home and doing well a week after wrapping up a seven-month space mission.

Cosmos 482 launched in late March 1972 toward Venus. However, the upper stage of its Soyuz booster shut down early. This left ...

NASA's oldest full-time astronaut, Don Pettit, returned to Earth on April 20 aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule. He spent 220 ...

"I love being in space," he said. "When you're sleeping, you're just floating, and your body, all those little aches and ...

April 28 marks the day Dennis Tito, a millionaire businessman from the US, became the world’s first space tourist in 2001. He ...

Amid Blue Origin's space flight mayhem, meet some of the most famous female astronauts who journeyed and contributed to space ...

NASA's astronaut Don Pettit's return marked the end of a seven-month mission aboard the ISS alongside two Russian cosmonauts.

Auroras are natural light displays that occur when charged particles from the sun interact with Earth’s magnetic field and ...