Stranded NASA astronaut Sunita "Suni" Williams has followers scratching their heads over a festive new photo that shows the space travelers getting into the holiday spirit lightyears away from earth.

All of this adds up to the likelihood, the ESA warns, that a theoretical scenario known as the Kessler Syndrome could become ...

Every year, the International Space Station (ISS) delivers some of the most breathtaking and unique photography of Earth.

This array of missions from NASA, SpaceX, Blue Origin and partners for 2025 reflects a busy year—and a dynamic and collaborative era in space exploration.

The International Space Station continues to act as humanity’s outpost in low-Earth orbit, a role that began at the turn of ...

The concept known as “Kessler Syndrome” was proposed nearly five decades ago. Experts weigh in on whether the space-based disaster scenario is already unfolding.

Most of us would panic if we were stranded in space without a firm return date. But Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore aren’t ...

NASA has been celebrating the photographic work of astronaut Matthew Dominick, who enjoyed a six-month stay aboard the space station in 2024.

The astronauts — including two whose return is long overdue — held a zero-gravity cookie-decorating contest and built a ...

Space station crews spend the holidays away from family and friends, but that doesn’t stop them from celebrating in space.

NASA awarded Axiom Space a $140 million contract in 2020 to attach a habitat module to the ISS, part of a government effort to commercialize low Earth orbit. Axiom’s Hab-1 would be the starting point ...