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NASA appoints new space station programme manager
Washington, July 1 (IANS) NASA has named Joel Montalbano as manager of the International Space Stat…
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The International Space Station has housed people for 20 years, but the $150 billion experiment will soon come to an end
Twenty years after Expedition 1 arrived on the International Space Station, here are some crew memb…
Susie Neilson
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SpaceX Crew Dragon creates history, docks with space station
Washington, May 31 (IANS) The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft carrying NASA astronauts Robert Behnken…
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China’s unmanned spacecraft makes a successful return to Earth— racing ahead of India on the path to having a space station
China’s manned space program is well on its way to constructing a space station by 2022. Today (May…
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SpaceX is sending another cargo-loaded rocket to space - here's how to watch and what the critical mission could tell us
One experiment will explore how plants respond to microgravity so that NASA can potentially gr…
Leanna Garfield
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SpaceX is about to launch a deadly superbug into space
The idea is not to weaponize space with MRSA - a bacterium that kills more Americans every year tha…
Bec Crew
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A group of mice developed serious health problems in space - and it might be bad news for astronauts
Researchers who have been studying the tiny space explorers since their 2011 voyage found that the …
Ali Sundermier
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How space movies have evolved over 120 years
From "A Trip to the Moon" to "Star Wars" to "The Midnight Sky," filmmakers have used evolving techn…
Ian Phillips,Ben Nigh
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SpaceX is about the launch a key component for future manned space exploration - here's how to watch
If SpaceX successfully lands the rocket, it will be the fifth rocket the company has landed and ret…
Ali Sundermier
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SpaceX just successfully launched a key component for future manned space exploration
If SpaceX successfully lands the rocket, it will be the fifth rocket the company has landed and ret…
Ali Sundermier
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SpaceX's Resilience spaceship autonomously docked to the space station with 4 astronauts inside, kicking off a historic mission for NASA
Now that it's connected to the ISS, SpaceX's first "operational" commercial mission is poised to br…
Dave Mosher,Morgan McFall-Joh…
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Why astronaut Scott Kelly grew 2 inches during his year in space
Now that he's back, Kelly will be studied by scientists to look for other changes that may have hap…
Lydia Ramsey
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The insane ways the human body changes during long-term spaceflight
"Things like radiation, microbes, stress, microgravity, altered sleep cycles and isolation could al…
Kelly Dickerson
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President Trump just called outer space to congratulate NASA's record-breaking female astronaut
Whitson and her astronaut colleague Jack Fischer took Trump's call at the International Space Stati…
Dave Mosher
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This 3D Printer Is Specifically Made To Work In Zero-Gravity In Space
Designed and created by California-based startup Made In Space, Inc., the Zero-G 3D Printer has bee…
Ajai Raj
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The incredible story behind a 1950s space experiment that turned into a viral sensation
In 1962, the Aerospace Medical Division included what they learned in a report, "Weightless Man: Se…
Sarah Kramer
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SpaceX is quietly planning Mars-landing missions with the help of NASA and other spaceflight experts. It's about time.
"It will start off building just the most elementary infrastructure, just a base to create some pro…
Dave Mosher
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NASA Develops Hi-tech Cages To Fly Rodents To ISS
Good news for astro-mice and space-rats. Rodents will now fly to the International Space Station (I…
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Scientists just launched fungi from the radioactive wasteland of Chernobyl into space, and it could change the way we treat cancer
"The fungi collected at the accident site had more melanin than the fungi collected from outside th…
Ali Sundermier
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A famous astronaut says his body still hurts after spending a year in space
"That's why we do this," Kelly told the crowd at NASA. "I mean, we need to learn these things if we…