An ailing astronaut returned to Earth with three others on Thursday, ending their space station mission more than a month early in NASA’s first medical evacuation. SpaceX guided the capsule to a ...

After nearly five months onboard the International Space Station, an international crew of four astronauts began their descent back down to Earth on a SpaceX capsule Friday. US astronauts Anne McClain ...

Earth sustains human life because it’s an ocean planet. The concept is basic, but it’s also elusive enough that astronaut ...

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NASA will bring Crew-11 astronauts back from the International Space Station, weeks earlier than previously planned, the agency announced Thursday. A medical situation with an unnamed crew member ...

African American astronaut Mae Jemison, left, smiles as suit technician Sharon McDougle performs an unpressurized and pressurized leak check on her spacesuit prior to the STS-47 Spacelab-J mission on ...

As the Orion, the world’s most advanced deep-space capsule, counts down to circumnavigating the Moon, that trek could be the forerunner to a cascade of Mars missions in the 2030s. Shown here is a ...