The International Space Station's Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator (Dextre) was employed to install the Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation instrument outside the International Space ...

Meanwhile, exactly ten years after the first launch of a test crew module, assembly has begun on the human-rated launch ...

Scientists warn that growing congestion in Earth’s orbit could trigger a catastrophic chain reaction, threatening satellites ...

All of this adds up to the likelihood, the ESA warns, that a theoretical scenario known as the Kessler Syndrome could become ...

Keen for its astronauts to continue living in near-Earth orbit after the ISS's decommissioning, NASA wants private firms to develop their own space stations.

There’s a growing movement of people who believe that our space agencies are underfunded (see: Penny4NASA) because humanity ...

Space missions to the moon, Mars and beyond often get the most attention, but NASA's Near Space Network does a lot of heavy ...

Close calls are becoming more common as low Earth orbit becomes more and more crowded with satellites and debris.

American space agency NASA launched the Spot the Station app last year and there are already 770,000 people using it to track ...

Pettit is currently on his third stay on the International Space Station (ISS), and he's continuing ... He's brought with him to space a homemade star tracker, a device that rotates a camera ...