Don Pettit arrived in Space City on Sunday (April 20), which happened to be his 70th birthday.

A space homecoming is coming soon as NASA astronaut Don Pettit and two Russian cosmonauts wrap up a 220-day orbital mission aboard the International Space Station. The trio will land in Kazakhstan on ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit returns to Earth on a Soyuz spacecraft later this week. Read about his extraordinary ride home on ...

"CBS Mornings" Gayle King and the rest of Blue Origin's historic all-women spaceflight crew blasted off on Monday.

A few more stars are entering the stratosphere as Blue Origin's all-female, celebrity-studded space flight takes flight.

After an 11-minute flight to space, Gayle King, Katy Perry and the women in their historic crew are recapping their emotional ...

It is named after astronaut Alan Shepard, the first American in space. During each launch, the rocket reaches initial speeds exceeding 2,000 mph – much faster than the speed of sound – before the ...

In December of last year, Chinese astronauts Cai Xuzhe and Song Lingdong, part of the Shenzhou 19 mission, spent a record-breaking nine hours on a space walk outside of the Tiangong space station ...

The nominee for NASA’s top job, billionaire spacewalker Jared Isaacman, outlined his vision for space exploration on Wednesday that prioritizes sending astronauts ... “I do not think these ...

and conflict with longheld expert opinions on a safe and feasible trajectory to expand humanity’s presence in space. “As the President stated, we will prioritize sending astronauts to Mars.

But in microgravity of space, muscles do not need to maintain the body's weight against gravity, and bones are not equally weighted. Therefore, the astronauts suffer from muscle atrophy ...