The station, under development by US aerospace company Vast, is already being assembled and represents a significant shift ...

NASA will launch two crewed missions in early February, sending astronauts to the ISS to prepare for Mars missions and ...

Gateway is a planned outpost in lunar orbit, but can it survive a current re-think of the Nasa-led Artemis programme?

The International Space Station (ISS) is due to close down by 2030, and Russia, one of its main partners, is designing its own replacement orbital laboratory. After a decade of planning to place its ...

Astronauts of the future may be radically different from the rest of us in physiology and psychology. So, to what extent might they resemble or represent ordinary humans?

NASA is saying goodbye to one of the most important satellite projects in the history of spaceflight as it moves forward with plans to shutter the International Space Station. Built and launched at ...

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Engineers intentionally blew up a full-scale prototype of an inflatable space module that could be used in future missions. Watch the big bang unfold here. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

A cargo ship from Japan pulled alongside the International Space Station on Wednesday, maneuvering close enough for the lab’s robotic arm to reach out and grab it as the vehicles soared 260 miles over ...

Navigating in a microgravity environment is a challenge even for trained human astronauts, but it is even more challenging for autonomous robots, limiting their use in places like a space station. Now ...

Since then, more than 280 spacefarers from 26 countries have visited the International Space Station, including 170 from the United States alone. Seven people are living aboard the International Space ...