TASS/. An emergency alarm in the Zvezda module of the ISS’s Russian segment woke up the Russian cosmonauts, the press service of Russia’s space corporation Roscosmos told TASS on Thursday.

MOSCOW--Smoke alarms went off at the Russian segment of the International Space Station in the early hours of Thursday, and the crew reported noticing smoke and the smell of burnt plastic.

Richard Horne, a space weather expert with the British Antarctic Survey, called the findings “a surprising result in a surprising region”, adding that the study would help scientists better ...