Chinese astronauts aboard the Tiangong space station are studying microbes, to help determine if some of Earth's early lifeforms can handle a simulated cosmic environment.

The company pitched these private missions as a way to develop the capability to bring business one day to its own orbital outpost. And in 2022 it won $228 million in NASA funding to design space ...

The experienced astronaut also traveled to the station aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour on the STS-126 mission, while his most recent visit to the orbital outpost was in 2011. Pettit has a Ph.D. in ...

On September 12 th at 4:52 am EDT, the BlueBird 1-5 mission lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and delivered the five largest-ever commercial communications arrays into low Earth orbit.

NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore could do little more than watch from the orbital outpost as the spacecraft that brought them there in June undocked autonomously and departed without ...

NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore could do little more than watch from the orbital outpost as the spacecraft that brought them there in June undocked autonomously and departed ...

The century-old aerospace firm's reputation has taken a hammering over thruster malfunctions and helium leaks its spaceship encountered on its way up to the orbital outpost in June, and the US ...

The century-old aerospace giant's reputation has taken a hammering over thruster malfunctions and helium leaks its spaceship encountered on its way up to the orbital outpost in June and the US ...

The century-old aerospace giant’s reputation has taken a hammering over thruster malfunctions and helium leaks its spaceship encountered on its way up to the orbital outpost in June, and the US ...

Reflect Orbital, a lighting and energy company, wants to sell customers sunlight at night for their needs as it works on refining its light-harvesting technology in order to power solar farms and ...