After several delays, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying billionaire Jared Isaacson and three other crew members finally ...

Astronauts on the International Space Station age slightly slower than the rest of us on Earth due to time-dilation effects.

Imagine floating in a place where gravity doesn’t weigh you down, where you can get a glimpse of many sunrises and sunsets in ...

The first-ever commercial spacewalk happened on Thursday and here on Earth, a Pittsburgh astronaut inspired the next ...

Sure, the trip is only 11 minutes, and yes, the rocket-capsule will barely cross the 68-mile-high line into space. The space tourism flight is suborbital and sub-optimal in a way for a Vanderbilt ...

Astronaut Chris Hadfield criticizes Clint Eastwood's film Space Cowboys for its inaccurate portrayal of astronaut training. The centrifuge scene in the movie fails to accurately depict the speed ...

The incident, which occurred at 23:28 BST, led some people to believe that a real astronaut was suffering from decompression sickness in space. It was made all the more believable because ...

And the crew of SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn attempted one this week and made history with the first spacewalk from a commercial ...

From that moment, Hernández made it his life’s ambition to defy all odds and become an astronaut too. As he grew up, he never ...

The stranded astronauts are currently ... the Obayashi Corp. commitment is real enough. But it may take international cooperation to actually get a space elevator built, in part because, without ...

Down To Earth Community Lab: Join your fellow space explorers to ask questions, share out-of-this-world ideas, and forge new ...

Former astronaut Leroy Chiao summed it up perfectly: "Of course, the spacesuits look much cooler than the real ones I used," he wrote in an op-ed for Space.com. Many hope the international ...