Kosmos 482 was part of the Venera program, a series of Soviet probes that set the early benchmark for exploring Venus. Its ...

China's new Haolong space cargo shuttle. See it launch in this animation. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: China Central ...

For months, President Trump has taunted Canada by claiming it should become America's 51st state. But the country's new prime ...

There is a lot of debris in orbit around Earth that sooner or later we will have to contrive a means to go get.

Many celebrities have shared their dreams of going to space, but some unfortunately haven't been able to make like Pete ...

In this week’s episode of Space Minds former Navy Captain, shuttle astronaut and current president of the Space operating group for ASRC Federal Scooter Altman reflects on his career, from ...

Fresh from space, NASA's oldest full-time astronaut said Monday that weightlessness made him feel decades younger, with ...

Their space shuttle was a Hollywood creation, made originally for the film Space Cowboy and the Russian pilot Yevgeny was an English actor who studied modern languages at Oxford. After boarding a ...

Russian recovery crews and NASA personnel ... was 77 when he flew aboard the space shuttle in 1998 as a NASA spaceflight participant. He holds the record as the oldest person to fly in orbit.

That's 162 human spaceflight missions since the beginning of 2000, ranging from Space Shuttle flights to Russian Soyuz missions, Chinese astronauts' first forays into orbit, and commercial ...