Ruth GriffithsRuth GriffithsRuth Griffiths is a regular columnist in the Prince Albert Daily Herald Rural Roots edition and a former Rural Roots editor.

NASA astronaut Barry 'Butch' Wilmore recently reunited with his family as his daughter gave an update on his return MIGUEL J. RODRIGUEZ CARRILLO/AFP via Getty After nine months in outer space ...

The hardware that will fly a historic private astronaut mission has made it to the launch pad. On Saturday (March 29), SpaceX posted photos on X of the Fram2 mission's Falcon 9 rocket and Crew ...

Fram2 will conduct research that could help future astronauts on Mars missions. A new mission from SpaceX will soon send humans over Earth's poles for the first time ever. Launching no earlier ...

Astronauts' hair care in space, as illustrated by Sunita Williams and Karen Nyberg, adapts to microgravity. Loose hair is common since gravity isn't a concern. Shower routines involve no-rinse ...

The United States ended its crewed space shuttle program with the launch of Atlantis on July 8, 2011 ... May 5, 1961 – Project Mercury astronaut Alan B. Shepard is the first American in space ...

The clip quickly caught the attention of several X users, including Elon Musk. Koichi Wakata, a veteran astronaut with decades of human spaceflight experience, recently posted a delightful moment ...

John Glenn was the only one of the Mercury ... astronauts to fly on the space shuttleon STS-95 in October-November 1998. The flight came 36 years after his only other space mission, Mercury-Atlas ...

SpaceX is set to launch the first human spaceflight directly over Earth's polar regions on Monday -- a days-long, privately funded orbital mission involving four astronauts. Named "Fram2" after ...