As NASA's oldest full-time astronaut, Pettit spent his seventh decade floating in ... bridged science and art, making it easier for the public to relate to the magic of space.

Summer is, perhaps counterintuitively, the season when many of us find ourselves with our nose constantly in a book. Warm weather and long days stoke the desire to let time and obligations fall away, ...

But there’s much more to a spacewalk than the amazing view of astronauts floating in space. These missions take months of training, come with serious risks, and need to be carried out with ...

Paul Van Hoeydonck originally wanted the statuette to celebrate "humanity rising into space." A Belgian sculptor credited with the "Fallen Astronaut" figurine left on the surface of the moon in ...

The travel photography blog Capture the Atlas has released the eighth edition of its annual Milky Way Photographer of the ...

an astronaut since 1996 who ventured to space four times. "All that kind of stuff heals up because you’re sleeping, you're just floating and your body, all these little aches and pains and ...

May 5 (UPI) --President Donald Trump on Monday celebrated National Astronaut Day on the 64th anniversary of Alan Shepard becoming the first American to go into space. On May 5, 1961, Shepard's ...

NASA's Anne McClain emerged from the International Space Station alongside ... to replace NASA's two stuck astronauts, who are now back home. Minutes before floating out, McClain noticed strands ...

an astronaut since 1996 who ventured to space four times. "All that kind of stuff heals up because you're sleeping, you're just floating and your body, all these little aches and pains and ...

The trio had been in orbit since Oct. 29. China's three-person Shenzhou 19 mission came home on Wednesday (April 30) after six months in orbit. The Shenzhou 19 spacecraft — carrying astronauts ...

May 1 (UPI) --Two NASA astronauts have completed a nearly six-hour spacewalk to perform maintenance and upgrades on the International Space Station, the agency announced Thursday. Anne McClain and ...