Astronauts orbiting the Earth are drilled to deal with the worst possible scenarios. That includes having to leave a doomed ...

At the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union pursued Spiral, a reusable orbital spaceplane designed to scout, strike, and intercept in space at extreme Mach speeds. This episode follows the MiG-105 ...

In a rare move, NASA is cutting a mission aboard the International Space Station short after an astronaut had a medical issue ...

The International Space Station has gone from seven crew members down to a "skeleton crew" of three due to a recent medical ...

Four astronauts have splashed down in the Pacific Ocean after leaving the International Space Station in Nasa’s first medical ...

I sometimes wonder where we would be now, as a species, had the Soviet Union not collapsed and continued its space race with the United States. Would we have already colonized other planets by now, or ...

The Astronaut Scholarship Foundation has announced that veteran NASA astronauts Tom Akers and Joe Tanner will be inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame® at the annual induction ceremony on May ...

NASA says a crew member on the International Space Station is unwell. The agency canceled a planned spacewalk for Thursday ...