Chinese scientists aboard the Tiangong Space Station have identified a novel bacterial strain, Niallia tiangongensis, ...

Astronaut Jonny Kim whipped up a zero-gravity snack aboard the International Space Station (ISS). While floating 260 miles ...

Aerial drone footage shows the humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) missing its iconic lobed fluke, which is responsible ...

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

Orbital Assembly Corporation plans to open Voyager Station, a rotating space hotel, in 2027. Accommodating 280 guests and 112 ...

McClain, an Army colonel and helicopter pilot, should have taken part in the first all-female spacewalk in 2019, but there weren’t enough medium-size suits. The first women-only spacewalk was by ...

He sipped a small brandy and inwardly celebrated his mission," writes Philip Baker, in his book titled "The Story of Manned Space Stations." Polyakov spent 437 days floating in the Earth's orbit ...

And they'll regularly see new sights. The space station orbits Earth about 16 times a day, and during each orbit the floating laboratory shifts a little to the west. "Whenever you log on ...

As a result, startup companies like Starcloud and Lonestar Data Holdings aim to put datacenters in outer space. These facilities—designed to orbit the Earth or reside on the surface of the Moon—would ...

There was a time when the International Space Station felt invincible ... In one case, the leak’s source was found using floating tea leaves. Currently, NASA intends to deorbit the ISS safely ...

“At some point, I’ll be able to get a photo of it floating in space,” Waechter said. The print of the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station shows the different launch pads, as well as the Human ...