As it turns out, more than humans were interested in the return of SpaceX's Crew-9 astronauts after an extended mission on board the International Space Station. An unexpected welcome committee ...

U.K. start-up Pulsar Fusion has unveiled plans to build a fleet of reusable nuclear fusion-powered rockets, known as Sunbirds, that could cut journey times across the solar system in half.

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams finally returned to Earth after spending a total of 286 days in space MIGUEL J. RODRIGUEZ CARRILLO/AFP via Getty It was a momentous homecoming for ...

United States astronauts Sunita “Suni” Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore went to space on board the Boeing Starliner Calypso on June 5, 2024. They were meant to spend eight days on the ...

Spending time in space and having an unrivalled view of planet Earth is an experience many of us dream of. However, the human body evolved to function in the gravity of Earth. So time in the ...

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Also on board the SpaceX Dragon capsule that departed around 1 a.m. Tuesday from the orbital laboratory are the two spacefarers who originally rode the spacecraft to outer space back in September.

Now they’ll undergo a battery of tests to find out how the longer-than-expected space stay has impacted their health. The pair left on June 5 for what was supposed to be an eight-day mission to ...

Remember those two NASA astronauts who got stuck on the International Space Station for nine months? They finally returned to Earth on Tuesday afternoon aboard SpaceX's Crew Dragon spaceship.

The Dragon spacecraft had flown four Crew 10 members from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center to the ISS on Sunday. Nasa astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency ...

NASA When astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore launched to the International Space Station (ISS) for a test flight last June, they were expecting to be back on Earth less than ten days later.

Their return caps a protracted space mission that was fraught with uncertainty and technical troubles, turning a rare instance of NASA's contingency planning - and the latest failures of Starliner ...