This bacterium, never before seen on Earth, was detected on China's Tiangong space station. It has been named Niallia tiangongensis , and it inhabited the cockpit controls on the station, living ...

SpaceX's 32nd robotic Dragon cargo mission has undocked from the International Space Station Friday (May 23), after a one-day delay due to bad weather at the splashdown site.

NASA astronauts on International Space Station capture images of lightning from space. The images McClain and Ayers shared show electrostatic discharges – in other words, lightning – from ...

The International Space Station. NASA Did ... Sunlight reflecting off the habitable satellite causes it to shine brightly as it orbits Earth some 250 miles up, making it easy to spot.

On May 23, NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center team supported the International Space Station crew in packing over 20 experiments, like a 3D microscope and DNA-based nanomaterials, into the SpaceX ...

Osteoporosis Treatments: How Space Is Strengthening Bones On Earth In the harsh environment of space, astronauts experience accelerated bone loss, losing bone mass up to 10 times faster than ...

A stunning video of the northern lights as seen from space was shared by NASA astronaut Anne McClain at the International Space Station. The northern lights, also known as the aurora borealis ...

Ayers, who made headlines for completing a rare all-female spacewalk, is one of 11 people living aboard the International Space Station. A NASA astronaut drifting high above Earth recently managed ...

Axiom Space will attempt to send its fourth crew to the ISS on Wednesday. NASA is planning on decommissioning the International Space Station (ISS) by the end of 2030. But before that happens ...

That distant glow in the dark of space is the full flower moon. Earth's water and clouds are below. NASA/Nichole Ayers. The final shot is an ode to distance.

Three Chinese astronauts returned to Earth on Wednesday, concluding a six-month mission aboard China's Tiangong space station. The crew’s landing module separated from the return vehicle ...