Crowded, smelly and seasick – life inside Nasa’s new spacecraft won’t be much fun. In 1959, when Nasa’s original seven astronauts first saw their tiny single-man Mercury space capsule, they weren’t ...

NASA is fast-tracking a mission to launch a spacecraft that will attempt to boost another one of the agency's science satellites into a higher orbit before it falls to a fiery death in Earth's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Out of an abundance of caution, NASA on Friday briefly directed five of the seven crew members aboard the International Space ...

SpaceX's all-civilian Polaris Dawn mission has pulled off an incredible feat: the first-ever commercial spacewalk. After fully depressurizing their entire spacecraft, billionaire and mission commander ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Voyager 1, shown in this illustration, has operated for decades thanks to a radioisotope power system. NASA via AP Powering ...

The spacesuits worn by astronauts for the Crew Dragon mission have been getting a lot of attention. How do they differ from other astronaut attire down the years? The futuristic flight suits worn by ...

It's been 50 years since the Apollo 11 flight landed the first humans on the Moon, but you don't need to be an astronaut to relive the experience. In fact, thanks to a quirky listing on Airbnb you can ...

THE International Space Station still has many years before its retirement in 2030, but now we’re getting insight into the “space graveyard” where it will be buried. Point Nemo, a remote, uninhabited ...

In 1959, when Nasa’s original seven astronauts first saw their tiny single-man Mercury space capsule, they weren’t impressed. It appeared to have no windows and few controls – the elite test pilots ...