Tag: International Space Station

Astronauts onboard the International Space Station were given a treat - they witnessed one of the most spectacular natural phenomenon ...

A few days ago, we were telling you about the espresso machine 3D printed onboard the International Space Station. Now, ...

Yesterday, Samantha Cristoforetti sipped the first coffee brewed in space using the newly delivered micro-gravity espresso machine. How befitting that ...

The threat of a possible ammonia leak in the US sector of the International Space Station (ISS) forced the American astronauts ...

It's a belated Christmas on the International Space Station - a shipment of much needed groceries arrived, delivered by SpaceX.

Today, Americans celebrate Thanksgiving - a special time of the year when families gather together and share what they're most ...

For a long while astronauts coming back home from the ISS would complain how bad the coffee is in Earth's ...

photo credit: GoPro in water by Steve Swanson, Reid Wiseman, and Alexander Gerst. Screen capture from YouTube. Curious about how water ...

Col. Chris Hadfield is not your typical astronaut (as far as astronauts can be seen as typical). The first Canadian to ...

NASA astronauts will once again travel from the Earth to the International Space Station - under groundbreaking contracts announced today. ...

Image: NASA At this very moment, the International Space Station has all its docking ports fully booked, as five manned ...

We've mentioned on numerous occasions the growing problem of space debris and voiced our concerns that, if left unchecked, the thousands of metal ...

Photo: AP I've expressed my fears that something like this might happen a few weeks ago when the first US ...

It's something that puzzled me for years now: consider a pair of identical twins; say, one gets a job as an ...

The International Space Station may be threatened by the recent worsen relations between the US and Russia. Photo: NASA A ...

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

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

Right after World Space Week ended just last week -  an event that celebrates the anniversary of the signing of the ...

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

Last year, an astronaut named Don Pettit started an unusual, but very poetic and insightful writing project on NASA's website: ...

Every little thing we hold for granted here on familiar ground and gravity is different in space. Take washing your ...

Artist's conception shows the International Space Station in the midst of an experiment in quantum entanglement.CREDIT: ESA One of the ...

There are a number of daily chores, activities and trifles that require a distinct amount of care and attention when ...

Flight Engineer Alexander Misurkin (left), Soyuz Commander Pavel Vinogradov (center) and Flight Engineer Chris Cassidy of NASA pose for pictures ...

A screencapture of the Dragon docked with the ISS. (c) NASA.tv After a great deal of excitement following a glitch ...

(c) NASA Just a few hours ago, SpaceX launched its third flight to the International Space Station tasked with carrying ...

A concept design for a inflatable space station module. (c) Bigelow Aerospace Recently, NASA announced in a press release that ...

While important scientific experiments, studies and research are conducted on a daily basis on-board the International Space Station, the astronauts ...

Space flight insomnia is quite a common issue, one for which space agencies don't have a definite answer yet - ...

After the thrilling success of SpaceX, which is currently the best option to ship equipment and supplies in and out ...

Three new members have now embarked on the International Space Station, after docking the Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft to the Poisk ...

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 ...

The Russian space program's Mission Control Center recently announced that the International Space Station will adjust its orbit to prevent ...

An artist impression of a view from the far side of the moon. At the beginning of the year, we ...

Alright, the analogy might not be the best. The Large Hadron Collider is a high energy particle accelerator, while the Alpha Magnetic ...

Last Saturday, after many meticulous preparatory stages and a couple of exasperating postponements, SpaceX was set to launch  its Falcon 9 rocket, ...

Since the space shuttle program was cancelled last year, NASA has been looking for various alternatives to sending manned crews ...

It seems we've been privileged with yet another time-lapse video showing our marvelous blue marble planet in all its splendor as seen ...

This Friday, ground mission control ordered the current stationed astronaut crew at the International Space Station to head for the ...

It's been quite a week for space exploration and some truly remarkable pictures were taken, here's the best ones. The ...

So we heard you like the International Space Station, so we made an ISS inside the ISS. Humor aside, I ...

There are currently an estimated 19,000 individual space debris swirling around Earth's orbit at 17,000 miles/hour, posing great threat to ...

The Robonaut 2, an autonomous NASA robot commissioned to ease the lives of astronauts on board the International Space Station ...

Night is quick to sound the alarm for most of us that it's time to hit he sack. While you're ...

Space offers incredibly fascinating experimental conditions for various scientific studies, otherwise very hard or practically impossible to replicate on Earth. ...

Baseball is typically a team sport, but for innovative scientists like the ones staged at the International Space Station, there ...

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

Almost one year and a half ago six volunteers embarked on a fictive mission to Mars, designed to simulate the ...

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