Making spacesuits compatible with different spacecraft could protect astronauts during an emergency evacuation.

Soviet Russia's Soyuz 11 cosmonauts Georgi Dobrovolski, Vladislav Volkov, and Viktor Patsayev died on their return to Earth ...

Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, the Nasa astronauts who were stuck on the International Space Station (ISS) for nine months, have finally returned ...

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

The fire spread very quickly, and the inward-opening hatch prevented the crew from escaping ... dock with the world's first space station, Salyut 1. Cosmonauts Georgi Dobrovolski, Viktor Patsayev ...

It’s not a lack of gravity that poses the biggest problem. Instead, environmental factors might prevent a space shooting. Extreme temperatures could cause the weapon to overheat and malfunction. If ...

While the space race of the 1960s was a contest between two rival superpowers, today it is being fought by private space ...

And in 1971, all three of the Soviet’s Soyuz mission crew died when their capsule depressurised before re-entry, as they travelled back from humanity’s first stay on a space station, Salyut 1.