Since those early steps, extravehicular activity has helped provide the solutions to many problems that astronauts face in ...

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams, who were stuck in space for more than nine months, took questions after ...

One moment occurred in 1984 when NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless II became the first human to spacewalk or float free from any earthly anchor when he stepped out of the space shuttle Challenger and ...

Four astronauts from NASA, JAXA, and Roscosmos are teaming up for an ambitious mission aboard the International Space Station ...

On the International Space Station, which orbits Earth around 16 times a day, Irish American astronaut and Expedition 27 Flight Engineer Catherine Coleman played a pair of Irish melodies on a 100-year ...

File pic: NASA/Reuters Mr Reisman needed to connect two power cords in order to warm up the antennae - but while floating ... space, to astronauts watching as snow-like coolant from their shuttle ...

While they were in space, a NASA space shuttle disintegrated as it re-entered Earth’s atmosphere and killed all seven astronauts on board in an incident that became known as the Columbia disaster.

which was tipped to be a critical alternative to Space X's Crew Dragon spacecraft, which is currently the only shuttle for US, European, Canadian and Japanese astronauts to and from the ISS.

Three years after the space shuttle's retirement in 2011, NASA awarded multibillion-dollar contracts to Boeing and SpaceX to build ferry ships to carry astronauts to and from the space station.

Seeing astronauts floating around weightlessly inside the International Space Station may be fun but the absence of gravity has its effects on long-duration space travellers, who experience ...

The astronauts were ... Planet as It Drifts Through Space A team of researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover new details about SIMP 0136, a free-floating planet in the Milky ...