Spacecraft and space suits are designed with backup systems to prevent such occurrences, but if oxygen supply is lost, astronauts could experience suffocation due to the lack of breathable air.

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station are plagued by persistent rashes, unusual allergies and a variety of infections, including fungi, cold sores and shingles. Researchers now think ...

Early on March 19 (IST), a SpaceX capsule bearing astronauts Sunita Williams, Barry Wilmore, Aleksandr Gorbunov, and Nick Hague splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico. The four were returning from ...

“And so I felt like a little ant on the elephant when I would shoot my mouth off about the conversation I had with Michael about why is it easier to train oil drillers to be astronauts than to ...

That one brought home the Boeing Starliner astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams who were left behind on the station last year, and became the center of a national spotlight after President ...

Both he and Williams may have lost up to half of their muscle mass while on the ISS, and almost a fifth of their bone density. Former astronauts have found that it can take up to 1.5 times the ...

NASA has deleted two comic books about women astronauts from all its websites, NASA Watch reports, in what appears to be the ...

On March 18, 2025, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams splashed down into the Gulf of Mexico aboard a SpaceX crew capsule, finally completing their unexpected nine-month mission to ...

March 18, 2025 • NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore were on the International Space Station more than nine months, despite launching into space in June for what was expected to be ...

Chinese astronauts complete seven-hour spacewalk outside Tiangong space station Cai Xuzhe and Song Lingdong stepped outside of the space station with the help of third crew member, Wang Haoze.

anchors and reporters across various networks avoided using the term “Gulf of Mexico” when covering the recent splashdown of the stranded NASA astronauts. It should never noted that they ...