The International Space Station just notched a major milestone, but its days are numbered: The ISS will crash to Earth over ...

In the 1970s, America’s first space station allowed three crews of astronauts to conduct hundreds of experiments. Skylab, however, is mostly remembered for the frenzy surrounding its return to Earth ...

Even without the ISS, some humans will stay off planet for the foreseeable future. There is no plan to stop the continuous ...

Chinese astronauts aboard the Tiangong space station orbiting the Earth have enjoyed humanity's first-ever barbecue in space.

After more than two decades of service in orbit, the International Space Station (ISS) is heading toward a dramatic end. By ...

Skylab IV splashed down on this day in 1974, ending the last mission to America’s first space station. They were glad to get home. The crew of Skylab IV — William Pogue, Gerald Carr and Edward Gibson ...

Since the first crew of astronauts reached the International Space Station on Nov. 2, 2000, humanity has had a continuous presence among the stars.

Back on Earth after what was then the longest human spaceflight in history, William “Bill” Pogue remarked on the autumn foliage around his house. “It’s so beautiful,” he told his sister, Betty Pogue ...

Now the barriers are falling. To protect its cargo as it re-enters Earth’s atmosphere, Space Forge engineers have built a folding ceramic heat shield named Pridwen, after the shield of King Arthur, a ...

At the beginning of November 2000, an ambitious project of East-West understanding began: the first crew moved into the ...

China’s Shenzhou-21 space rocket and its crew including the youngest member of its astronaut corps blasted off on Friday atop a Long March-2F rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in ...