The Silverton native is on a six-month mission on the International Space Station and is the second-oldest NASA astronaut.

While privately funded programs to develop space vehicles and execute extraterrestrial missions have been in play for years, ...

Nasa's Valkyrie robot was built by the Johnson Space Center to compete in a 2013 robotics challenge trial. Weighing 300lb and ...

Peggy Whitson, an Iowa native and veteran astronaut, will command Axiom Space’s Ax-4 mission, set to launch no earlier than ...

The astronauts aboard the International Space Station will celebrate New Year’s a total of 16 times as the vessel hurdles ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit has started 2025 as he means to go on, with yet another stunning photograph from the space station.

The state in space makes it difficult or dangerous for certain foods to be brought and consumed there, so they are banned.

Iowa-born astronaut Peggy Whitson is scheduled to command another two-week mission to the International Space Station in the ...

Iowa native and prolific astronaut -- first with NASA for three decades and recently as director of human space flight for ...

The number of sunrises the crew will see is estimated based on the number of times the International Space Station (ISS) ...

The space station sees 16 sunrises and 16 sunsets every 24 hours. So how will the crew there know when it's 2025?

From uncrewed lunar missions to the launch of the first private space station, here's a sneak peek at the space missions that ...