Chris Williams, who graduated with NASA's 23rd astronaut class last year, has been selected to fly to the International Space ...

NASA’s Space Shuttle may be gone, but Dream Chaser is bringing the concept back - smaller, sleeker, and smarter. Designed for reusability, runway landings, and both cargo and crew transport ...

When the pair finally returned home in March, the astronauts had completed 286 consecutive days in space. But while that unexpectedly long duration sounds like a lot, it's totally normal for ...

The whole point of the mission was to test the spacecraft, which was tipped to be a critical alternative to Space X's Crew Dragon spacecraft, which is currently the only shuttle for US ...

The growth in the population of satellites and debris in orbit, driven by megaconstellations like SpaceX’s Starlink, has provided a new impetus to efforts to better model how space weather ...

A constellation of satellites orbiting 250 miles above Earth’s surface shows how solar and wind have taken off in recent years: Here’s what renewable energy sites looked like eight years ago ...

NASA hired SpaceX and Boeing after the shuttle program ended, in order to have two competing U.S. companies for transporting astronauts to and from the space station until it's abandoned in 2030 ...

on Tuesday after nine months at the International Space Station. Wilmore, Williams, NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov were greeted by a pod of dolphins that ...

Astronauts Leland Melvin, STS-129 mission specialist, and Butch Wilmore, pilot, work on the aft flight deck of Space Shuttle Atlantis during flight day two activities on Nov. 17, 2009. Being in space ...

As astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams get their land legs back on Earth, the effects of being stranded in space for nine months — and their recovery — will give scientists a ...

Why Did Sunita Williams Go To Space? Astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore embarked on an eight-day mission to the International Space Station on June 5 as part of NASA's initiative to test ...