Sterilizing robotic spacecraft to prevent contamination is one thing, but sterilizing human beings is impossible. We are ...

After undocking, Dragon maneuvered to a safe distance away from the space station and began a series of deorbit burns to place the spacecraft on a return trajectory for a planned splashdown off the ...

A SpaceX vehicle that has spent about a month docked at the International Space Station on a resupply mission is due to depart Thursday, May 22.

Scientists have discovered unknown bacteria that have never been seen on Earth living inside a cabin on China 's Tiangong ...

Analysis of swabs from China's Tiangong Space Station has revealed a new strain of bacteria sporting new adaptations for ...

A NASA astronaut onboard the International Space Station has shared 'breathtaking' images of 'the world and beyond'.

That story chronicles her journey from a poverty-stricken childhood in the Caribbean and years living unhoused, to pursuing ...

Commander Matthew Dominick, pilot Michael Barratt, mission specialists Jeanette Epps and Aleksandr Grebenkin arrived at the ...

The infrastructure of humanity's journey into space may only be decades old, but some of it has already been lost. Now, ...

For a close-up view of the future aerospace engineers who will get the U.S. back to the moon and out to Mars, head to The ...

Once Dr Coogan arrives on the ISS she would follow fellow Brits Helen Sharman, the first Briton in space in 1989, and Tim ...

Dr Rosemary Coogan graduated from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) astronaut training programme last year and is now ...