Tag: iss

Launched in 2000, it has hosted astronauts from 19 countries. Now, NASA's thinking about its retirement.

Everybody is fine and we've put it back in place.

Space: the final petri dish.

These are the first people to take a vacation outside of Earth.

Researchers plan to employ them as producers of food, antibiotics, other materials for astronauts on deep space missions.

Could this be the key to ensuring that the ISS lives long and prosper?

That looks like a lot of fun!

Step 1: live on hairless primate. Step 2: wait for said primate to go to space. Step 3: PROFIT!

These are exciting times for SpaceX

In space, no one can hear you sneeze.

Few problems will persist after a generous application of stabbings.

It should be ready by the mid-2020s.

The first step to making spacebabies is to know if we can actually do it.

It's the longest Russian spacewalk and the fifth-longest spacewalk in human spaceflight history.

It would cost around $100 million a pop, though.

The astronaut apologized for the 'fake news'.

You can watch it live here.

Time to dust off that old Skyrim dvd.

Nature, being ridiculously cool since forever.

Seeds -- the tiny bunkers of life.

More like robocute, am I right?

"A laugh star floating in space, above all our heads, is my attempt to create a contemporary metaphor for the ...

Nobody was hurt and no one is starving but it's never fun when this happens.

One skilled photographer shows what coming to Earth feels like.

Lettuce have a feast, then!

Astronauts will be installing a new module on the ISS for space taxis.

British astronaut Tim Peake ran the London Marathon on a treadmill aboard the International Space Station.

Today is homecoming day for a record-setting crew. Three Expedition 46 crew members from the International Space Station are finishing packing ...

Astronaut Scott Kelly (seen in pic) and his colleagues stationed on the International Space Station now have a new Sidekick. ...

This bright orange zinnia was grown in the Vegetable Production System (also known as the gloriously puny "Veggie"), a deployable ...

Many of you reading this hope to one day be able to explore outer space; the thrill of discovery, entwined ...

SpaceVR started a Kickstarter campaign today with the goal of sending a 3D, 360-degree camera to the ISS. This camera ...

It took more than was expected, but the three astronauts set for the International Space Station docked with the International Space Station ...

As the ISS hurtles in orbit around the Earth, an eternal freefall at 17,100 mph, its cameras, and the astronauts ...

Astronauts onboard the ISS may soon get a new "toy" - a space laser cannon to blast off space debris ...

Growing vegetables in outer space - something which science fiction readers are very familiar with, but in the real world, ...

The ISS in 2007. If you've been living in a cave or just don't care about science at all, then ...

Good news everybody - the International Space Station won't be sunk into the ocean in 2020! In case you don't ...

Chris Hadfield is a (now retired) Candian astronaut - the first Canadian to walk into outer space; on 19 December ...

Manu Sharma is an aerospace engineer with a great vision: he wants high-school kids and college students to have the ...

Chris Hadfield, quite possibly my favorite current astronaut has snapped a spectacular photo of Italy's Mount Etna volcano streaming ash ...

SpaceX has gone where no private company has gone before - and safely returned. They are now officially the only ...

Sunita Williams is an Indian-American astronaut who currently holds the record for longest space flight time among female space travelers ...

Surprisingly many people have question the benefits of building and supporting an international space stations, especially considering the costs, which ...

There's no shortage of fantastic pics and videos from the International Space Station, but this mesmerizing time lapse video just ...

Following what seemed to be a serious problem with one of the engines from the Falcon 9 rocket, the unmanned ...

As we already told you, after the first launch attempt was stopped with just one second to go, SpaceX finally ...

It doesn't only happen in the movies: the launch of the SpaceX Falcon rocket, destined to hit the International Space ...

Earlier this morning, the Soyuz spacecraft successfully containing three excited new members for the ISS docked, thus bringing the space ...

If the Americans and NASA are having some issues regarding their space program at the moment, the Russians are doing ...