Due to atmospheric drag, even the ISS experiences gradual deceleration over time. This friction with the thin traces of Earth ...

Skylab set the stage for 50 years of scientific advances, but America's first space station is mostly remembered for the ...

Three astronauts and one cosmonaut will be living on the ISS when the orbiting laboratory celebrates 25 years of ...

Earth, Astronaut Nichole Ayers is fulfilling a life-long dream. Ayers has been aboard the International Space Station since ...

From July 3 through July 8, it will be possible to sight the two largest objects currently in orbit around the Earth, passing across the predawn sky within minutes of each other.

On July 29, 1982, the Salyut 6 space station fell out of space and safely burned up in Earth's atmosphere along the way.

The next four people to launch to the International Space Station have arrived at their launch site.

The head of Russia’s space agency Roscosmos said Thursday that he had agreed with his NASA counterpart to extend operations ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The International Space Station’s first visitors from India, Poland and Hungary headed back to Earth on Monday, wrapping up a private mission and catching a ride home with ...

Last month, the parachutes on Hélène Huby's small spacecraft failed to deploy, and the vehicle and its cargo crashed into the ...

The Axiom astronauts, garbed in their helmeted white-and-black flightsuits, were seen in live video footage strapped into the crew cabin shortly before the vehicle separated from the station, orbiting ...