When astronauts are orbiting earth, it's often not chocolate they crave but a fresh, crunchy salad. Now a team of scientists is working to re-design plants to enable that to happen.
The Parker Solar Probe has successfully completed a historic close encounter with the sun, passing through its blazing corona in mankind's nearest approach to the star, NASA announced Friday.
Stranded NASA astronaut Sunita "Suni" Williams has followers scratching their heads over a festive new photo that shows the space travelers getting into the holiday spirit lightyears away from earth.
This array of missions from NASA, SpaceX, Blue Origin and partners for 2025 reflects a busy year—and a dynamic and collaborative era in space exploration.
The International Space Station continues to act as humanity’s outpost in low-Earth orbit, a role that began at the turn of ...
What Happened: The average tenure of a Boeing engineer has dropped to 12.6 years from 16.4 years over the last decade, the ...
American space agency NASA says it has completed the first test campaign on mockups of the future Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV) ...
The concept known as “Kessler Syndrome” was proposed nearly five decades ago. Experts weigh in on whether the space-based disaster scenario is already unfolding.
Most of us would panic if we were stranded in space without a firm return date. But Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore aren’t ...
The astronauts — including two whose return is long overdue — held a zero-gravity cookie-decorating contest and built a ...
The astronauts on the I.S.S. — including two who were scheduled to return months ago — held a zero-gravity cookie-decorating ...