Certain species of ground squirrels hibernate underground without any food or water for up to eight months of the year. It’s a super-extreme survival strategy, enabled by a complicated cascade of ...

A Boeing X-37B miniature space shuttle sent into space by the U.S. military successfully returned from the Earth’s orbit on ...

Massachusetts native Suni Williams and her crewmates splashed down aboard a SpaceX capsule on Tuesday, concluding a dramatic ...

Their SpaceX capsule parachuted into the Gulf of Mexico, just hours after leaving the International Space Station.

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have returned to Earth after being stuck in space for more than nine months.

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams left the International Space Station in a SpaceX capsule early Tuesday, checking out with the cosmonaut and astronaut.

Since those early steps, extravehicular activity has helped provide the solutions to many problems that astronauts face in ...

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams launched last June as the first test pilots for Boeing's new Starliner capsule and quickly ...

The three-module Tiangong was completed in late 2022 and has been constantly occupied ever since, with three-person crews ...

Two NASA missions called "SPHEREx" and "PUNCH" could share a ride to space this evening (March 11) after multiple delays. The agency had planned to launch both missions at the same time on ...

While in orbit, Mission 7 tested "space domain awareness technology experiments" that aim to improve the United States Space Force’s knowledge of the space environment, the agency said.

Space Force officials would not say what’s on board other than a Nasa experiment to gauge the effects of radiation on materials. Its predawn touchdown on Friday at Vandenberg Space Force Base in ...