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 ...

After Blue Origin's latest New Shepard launch that featured an all-women celebrity crew, many are wondering, are they now ...

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

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 ...

Katy Perry and Gayle King are among the famous passengers taking a rocket-powered joyride Monday. But determining the point at which the star-studded crew reaches space isn’t as straightforward as it ...

NASA is offering $3 million to anyone who can invent a way to “recycle” dozens of bags of poop astronauts left on the moon more than half a century ago. The space agency wants to come up with ...

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 ...