NASA needs commercial crewed spacecraft, such as those being made by SpaceX and Boeing, to be capable of serving as emergency shelters and getaway vehicles.
A NASA astronaut bound for the International Space Station was brutally honest and admitted that he is terrified about using the toilet in a weightless orbit around Earth.
Spotting the International Space Station is easy and you can see it with the naked eye.
Earth is not the only planet with beautiful auroras in its atmosphere — Uranus has them too.
The three astronauts left the International Space Station just before 4 a.m. EDT Monday, and landed in Kazakhstan about three hours and 20 minutes later.
On April 24, she will break the national record, currently held by Jeff Williams, for spending the highest number of cumulative days spent in space.
The deep space gateway would serve as a waypoint for crewed Mars missions, while the vehicle which would ferry humans to the red planet and beyond.
As of now, NASA has approved funding for the International Space Station till 2024, and Russia’s Roscosmos has agreed to support the mission up to that time.
Plans for the next International Space Station are in the works, and it looks like it's going to orbit the moon.
NASA Expedition 50 members, Shane Kimbrough and Peggy Whitson, are doing a spacewalk Thursday morning on the International Space Station.
Thanks to this spacewalk, you’ll soon be able to pile into a taxi and take it straight to the International Space Station.
There’s a lot of garbage flying around the Earth, and that space debris is traveling 10 times faster than a bullet.
Scientists on board the International Space Station are attempting to grow stem cells in microgravity in an effort to boost their therapeutic viability.
The Dragon capsule was carrying more than 3,600 pounds of cargo back to Earth, some of which will be transported immediately to NASA scientists for study.
The earliest studies based on the treasure trove of data gathered as part of the unique study may be published either later this year, or sometime in 2018.
NASA will create the coldest spot inside a box — currently in its final stages of assembly — which will be sent to the International Space Station on a SpaceX cargo mission in August.
SpaceX’s Dragon cargo spacecraft aborted its approach to the International Space Station early Wednesday due to a trouble with its GPS navigation system.
Government investigators have determined SpaceX's Falcon 9 rockets are prone to cracks and may be unfit for manned flights.
The contracts, announced under NASA's Commercial Crew Transportation Capability program, bring the total number of missions awarded to SpaceX and Boeing to six each.
With Boeing also delaying its manned space launches to 2018, the space agency will be forced to continue its reliance on Russian rockets, and even that will end in 2019.
The Japanese space agency launched a cargo ship carrying an electrodynamic tether, designed in collaboration with a fishnet maker, to remove some of the debris locked in orbit around Earth.
As part of the "cut-and-come-again" technique, astronauts reaped the first harvest of red romaine lettuce leaves grown on board the International Space Station last month.