Astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, stranded at the International Space Station (ISS) for over nine months, have ...

With Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore set to return to Earth after nearly nine months in space, let's look at how the astronauts' return takes place ...

The Spiral’s primary mission, had it made it beyond the test stage, would have been a combination of reconnaissance and ...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX dominates the news these days, but a host of oddballs involved in space exploration came before him.

Here’s a look at human spaceflight programs in the United States and around the world. Facts The United States ended its crewed space shuttle program with the launch of Atlantis on July 8, 2011, and ...

NASA’s Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, whose weeklong Boeing Starliner mission turned into an extended stay in space, have ...

The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft carrying Crew-9 astronauts, including Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, has undocked from the ...

The Command Module was the only part of the Apollo spacecraft that returned to Earth after the mission; the Service Module was jettisoned before re-entry and burned up in the atmosphere.

To withstand the immense heat of reentry, the MiG-105 was clad ... Unlike the blunt, capsule-like shapes of early spacecraft—think the Apollo or Vostok modules of America and the Soviet Union, ...

Space is one of the most dangerous frontiers, yet astronauts have repeatedly defied death through skill, technology, and ...