The Silverton native is on a six-month mission on the International Space Station and is the second-oldest NASA astronaut.

Staying clean in space can be tricky without showers, sinks, or gravity. Astronauts have to come up with smart ways to keep ...

What to know about the growing threat of space debris as satellites multiply and experts warn of potential orbital disaster.

The four brightest planets are still afoot. Venus and Saturn dot the southwestern sky at dusk, while Jupiter and Mars join ...

Stranded NASA astronaut Sunita "Suni" Williams has followers scratching their heads over a festive new photo that shows the space travelers getting into the holiday spirit lightyears away from earth.

All of this adds up to the likelihood, the ESA warns, that a theoretical scenario known as the Kessler Syndrome could become ...

This array of missions from NASA, SpaceX, Blue Origin and partners for 2025 reflects a busy year—and a dynamic and ...

The International Space Station continues to act as humanity’s outpost in low-Earth orbit, a role that began at the turn of ...

NASA is celebrating the photographic work of astronaut Matthew Dominick, who enjoyed a six-month stay aboard the space station in 2024.

The astronauts — including two whose return is long overdue — held a zero-gravity cookie-decorating contest and built a ...

Space station crews spend the holidays away from family and friends, but that doesn’t stop them from celebrating in space.

NASA awarded Axiom Space a $140 million contract in 2020 to attach a habitat module to the ISS, part of a government effort ...