International Space Station

Identifies Object That Crashed Into Florida Home

Science
Dr. Thomas Hughes

Recovered stanchion from the NASA flight support equipment used to mount International Space Station batteries on a cargo pallet. The stanchion survived ...

Nasa ‘shocked’ by how close Russian spacecraft came to hitting satellite

Science
Dr. Thomas Hughes

On Tuesday, Nasa launched its Space Sustainability Strategy, which aims to better map and monitor satellites and debris, and keep orbits as ...

Russian Rocket Launches Astronaut, Cosmonaut, and Flight Attendant to ISS, Days After Glitch

Science
Dr. Thomas Hughes

The Soyuz rocket launches to the International Space Station with Expedition 71 NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, and Belarus ...

Thomas Stafford, astronaut whose space handshake with a Soviet helped thaw the Cold War – obituary

Science
Dr. Thomas Hughes

The two crews were selected and announced two years ahead of the 1975 flight date, the first time Russia had named cosmonauts ...

Japan To Soon Launch World’s First Wooden Satellite: Know All About It

Science
Dr. Thomas Hughes

The LignoSat probe is made of magnolia wood. Japanese scientists have developed one of the world’s most unique spacecraft- a wooden satellite ...

NASA Experiment With Fire in Space Ends When Entire Spacecraft Burns Up

Science
Dr. Thomas Hughes

NASA has officially bid adieu to its Spacecraft Fire Safety Experiment (Saffire), fittingly having the last one burn up in the Earth’s ...

NASA Shares Pic Of Moon And Earth Captured Together From International Space Station

Science
Dr. Thomas Hughes

The Moon appears partially lit in the upper middle portion of the image. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) regularly captures ...

Space-based research may lead to cancer ‘kill switch’

Health
Sarah Carter

A SpaceX Falcon 9, topped with a Crew Dragon spacecraft, blasts off for the International Space Station with the Axiom Mission 3 ...

Revolutionizing ISS Resupply for NASA

Science
Dr. Thomas Hughes

Illustration of Sierra Space’s first Dream Chaser, named DC#1 (Tenacity). The Dream Chaser spacecraft, developed by Sierra Space for NASA, is preparing ...

Two Missing Space Tomatoes Found After One Year

Science
Dr. Thomas Hughes

Two rogue tomatoes have been recovered nearly a year after astronaut Frank Rubio accidentally lost track of them while harvesting for the ...