A proposed mission seeks to retrieve Vanguard-1 and display it as an ancient relic of the space age.

Here is how death in space would be handled today: If someone died on a low-Earth-orbit mission – such as aboard the International Space Station – the crew could return the body to Earth in a capsule ...

Laika, a mixed breed from Russia, was just one of countless animals used in the relentless pursuit of human discovery, as we strive to explore unchartered territories for greater understanding of the ...

A privately-funded human space mission like no other will soon be launching from Cape Canaveral, taking four first-time astronauts on a journey over the North and South poles. Fram2 is set to ...

Houston Rabbi Shaul Osadchey encouraged a member of his congregation and then astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman to bring the first Torah into space on his final shuttle mission in 1996. Osadchey tracked ...

Sadly, the first astronaut to die during a spaceflight was another Soviet ... Setbacks aside, the Soviet Union was then far ahead of the USA in the space race, launching the first satellite ...

As astronauts Sunita ... a street dog was sent to space, despite knowledge that it would never return? Here's the heartbreaking story of Laika... Who was Laika?Laika, a stray dog from the streets of ...

Experienced astronauts Sunita "Suni" Williams and Commander Barry "Butch" Wilmore arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) in June 2024 thinking it was a routine eight-day stay.

Wilmore and fellow NASA astronaut Sunita "Suni" Williams traveled to the International Space Station (ISS) on June 5, 2024, on the first-ever crewed mission of Boeing's new Starliner capsule.

Nine months in space isn't a record by any means, but it's long enough that Williams and Wilmore likely saw some changes to their bodies during their time on the ISS. As with any astronaut ...

The first Space Force officer to be launched into space came back to Earth on Tuesday evening after six months aboard the International Space Station, returning alongside two astronauts who had ...

Humans who've spent time in space, including Britain's first ever astronaut Dr Helen Sharman, have reported experiencing a phenomenon that they say changes their lives forever. While the ...