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NASA is now calling the cracks in a Russian service module a ‘top safety risk’ – escalating the threat rating to five out of five. Astronauts have been warned to stay in the American section when the module is open...

As the International Space Station enters its third decade of continuous human presence, the impact of microgravity research conducted there keeps growing...

NASA continues to work to resolve a problem with the Hubble Space Telescope payload computer that halted on June 13.

In the long run, revealing what makes tardigrades so tolerant could lead to ways of protecting biological material, such as food and medicine from extreme temperatures, drying out, and radiation exposure, which will be invaluable...

The Cygnus spacecraft successfully departed the International Space Station three months after arriving at the space station to deliver about 8,000 pounds of scientific experiments and supplies to the orbiting laboratory.

From NASA May 30, 2020 RELEASE 20-057 A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft is launched from Launch Complex 39A on NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station with...

From NASA March 13, 2020 The International Space Station, a microgravity laboratory orbiting Earth at 17,500 miles per hour, has hosted a variety of scientific research for nearly 20 years...

“I just want to be proud of the company that I work for,” Maren Costa told me recently. Costa is a Principal UX Design Lead at Amazon, for which she has worked since 2002. I was referred to her because of her leadership...

From NASA image of the day. June 7, 2019 Venus at Sunrise From the Space Station From the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Christina Koch (@AstroChristina) snapped and posted this image of the planet Venus at sunrise....

A Russian Progress cargo ship is scheduled to launch on a three-hour flight to the International Space Station Thursday, April 4. Live coverage of the spacecraft’s launch and arrival will begin at 6:45 a.m. EDT on NASA...

NASA astronaut Nick Hague completed the first spacewalk of his career on Friday, March 22, 2019. He and fellow astronaut Anne McClain worked on a set of battery upgrades, on the International Space Station’s starboard truss....

From people who get grants, but may be thermodynamically challenged.~ctm November 13, 2018 by Anthony King, From Horizon Magazine When astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) exhale carbon dioxide (CO2), it’s...

We've all heard of the companies promising to launch humans on trips to space, but have you thought about where you will stay once you get there? Startup Orion Span thinks they have the answer - and they're planning to launch...

The International Space Station (ISS) was launched in 1998, and since then astronauts from around 18 countries have visited. Now, Donald Trump's administration could be aiming to end NASA funding for the two-decades-long...

Space is now officially home to the known universe's first "space nation". Asgardia launched its very first satellite, Asgardia-1, into orbit on November 12, 2017. Only about the size of a soccer ball, the satellite traveled...