Exploration has never been a safe occupation. For every significant discovery, there has been sacrifice by those seeking out ...

The Fram 2 mission, named after the iconic polar ship, aims to orbit Earth from pole to pole, conducting 24 experiments, ...

Although it was only briefly seen during the live webcast of its launch, the Fram2 mission's zero-gravity indicator was ...

What a long, strange trip it’s been” were words of a Grateful Dead song, but those lyrics may have been on the minds of ...

A bitcoin investor is headed to space with three polar explorers on the first flight to carry people over the North and South ...

Elon Musk's SpaceX launched the first human spaceflight mission to fly over the Earth's polar regions, funded and commanded ...

US President Donald Trump on Friday pledged to personally pay overtime wages for NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, who were stranded in space for 286 days. Trump made the promise ...

Next month, Korean-American astronaut Jonny Kim (41), who will take part in a space flight for the first time under NASA, expressed his anticipation on the 19th (local time), saying, "It is hard ...

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams arrived back on Earth on Tuesday after living in space for a longer-than-expected nine months. The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft carrying Wilmore ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams aren’t the first to run late in space, and their 9 ½-month mission falls short of any endurance record. But never before ...

Space is one of the most dangerous frontiers, yet astronauts have repeatedly defied death through skill, technology, and quick thinking. Listen to Story The world breathed a sigh of relief as Sunita ...