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Imagine you’re doing routine repairs of the newest, most sensitive telescope, orbiting in low-earth orbit near the International Space Station (ISS). You’ve just reached...

The idea behind this solution is to launch a special satellite into space. Once there, a net is deployed, enabling the satellite to gobble up a piece of space junk.

This failure is SpaceX’s first failed ISS mission. But, unfortunately for the astronauts aboard the space station, this isn’t the first failed resupply mission.

The next team of scientists in NASA’s NEEMO project will soon head to the research habitat where NASA is preparing for future missions to alien worlds. But this habitat isn’t in space; it’s underwater.

In July of 1975, 40 years ago, a U.S. Apollo spacecraft ran into a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft. Crew members of both ships, doing the polite...

The Soyuz TMA-15M vehicle (there is one other Soyuz spacecrafts) was actually due to bring astronauts back to Earth tomorrow.

The U.S. Space Program is now celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of its first spacewalk. That event marked the beginning of the United States leading the world in spaceflight and space exploration.

NASA wants to use Boeing to help transport astronauts on an ISS Flight to and from the International Space Station. Last Wednesday, the space...

These findings, along with the previous ones on other negative effects of life in space, serve as a stern warning to humans about the dangers of long-term exposure to near-zero g.

SpaceX, an American rocket company, has made a successful test of its SpaceX emergency abort system, which would be used in the case of...

Today, at 12:42 PM EDT, SpaceX’s spacecraft, the Dragon, had successful splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. The craft was carrying over two tons of NASA cargo from the International Space Station, including important research on how life in space affects bone health and the aging process.

U.S. Air Force X-37B spacecraft is set to launch tomorrow at 10:45 a.m. EDT from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, atop the Atlas...

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has been given the okay by NASA to be used in their Category 2 missions. The spacecraft, however, will not...

Good news for Falcon 9! After an agreement with NASA this past week, Space X got true approval for its Falcon 9 rocket may fly medium-level NASA missions.

Elon Musk’s space flight company, SpaceX, once again had reason to celebrate. The company successfully carried out a pad abort test of the Dragon spacecraft, which recently delivered supplies to the International Space Station. Though the test was very short, 99 seconds, and had a max altitude of just over one kilometer, it showcased some of the technology that will make suborbital space flight viable in the near future.

Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti gave the public a tour of the space toilet facility on the International Space Station (ISS) and it’s considerably more advanced than a urine collection bag. To compensate for the lack of gravity, the space toilet system uses a fan to create a vacuum that draws waste away from the body.

A lot is going on up in space, and for once it’s not about aliens. SpaceX development now has a capsule capable of carrying crewmembers into space.

Not everyone has the talents of a Starbucks barista, so making the perfect espresso can be difficult enough when attempting to do so on...

We’ve come a long way with space exploration, but as the ISS and Scott Kelly showed us, there’s no place like home. Scott Kelly,...

Unmanned Russian cargo spaceship from Russia experiencing delay in delivery of its cargo. A malfunctioning antenna made the Russian cargo spaceship careen veer off course. Anton Shkaplerov, Gennady Padalka, and Mikhail Korniyenko are all Russians aboard the ISS, along with Americans, Scott Kelly and Terry Virts as well as Italian astronaut, Samantha Cristoforetti. The Russian cargo space ship, the M-27M would have reached all aboard the ISS within six hours of launching if everything had just gone smoothly.