"This milestone confirms that our space station design is technically sound and safe for astronaut crewed operations." The Starlab commercial space station project is moving toward the production ...

The US Space Force highlighted that China is developing space combat capabilities, with five Chinese satellites executing synchronised movements likened to orbital dogfighting. Verification ...

The Space Force will need to use AI in new ways to identify and track objects in space—also called “space domain awareness”—as space becomes increasingly congested, the service’s acting ...

Extended time in space can bring changes to human physiology and psychology. NASA astronauts Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Sunita "Suni" Williams are returning to Earth after spending an unplanned ...

Other companies have similar aspirations. The US space company Axiom Space, best known for organizing short trips to the International Space Station for private astronauts, intends to launch a ...

They shared the ride home with two outgoing space station crewmates, Crew-9 commander Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Gorbunov. Seventeen hours after undocking from the International ...

SpaceX’s Crew-10 mission successfully docked at the International Space Station on Sunday morning, setting the stage to finally retrieve the two NASA astronauts who have been stuck in orbit for ...

Two astronauts stuck in space for more than nine months have left the International Space Station on their 17-hour journey back to Earth. Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams blasted off to the ISS on ...

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.

In less than a week, the experienced spacefarers could be boarding a SpaceX Dragon capsule with the Crew-9 mission team and undocking from the International Space Station for a water landing in ...

Credit: Ministry of Science and ICT HELSINKI — South Korea has approved new space strategies, including plans for reusable launch vehicles, as it seeks to become one of the world’s top five ...

NASA’s Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore — who gained international attention as their planned short stay in space stretched into a more than nine-month, politically fraught mission — are ...