With the International Space Station (ISS) set to retire in 2030, several nations and commercial space companies have plans ...

Abstract: Penguin colony detection is an important part in Antarctic research and is significant for global ecological conservation. Meanwhile, the emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) urgently ...

Explore how new modules, racks, and specialized facilities on NASA’s International Space Station expanded research potential, enabling diverse experiments in microgravity and increasing access for ...

Unlike other space stations, the Thunderbird doesn't require multiple rocket launches to be fully operational in Earth's ...

Max Space, a startup developing expandable module technologies, plans to build a commercial space station that could launch on a single Falcon 9 rocket.

Astronauts Tom Stafford and Wally Schirra delighted mission control with their rendition of the Christmas classic ...

THE PEOPLE WHO OWN THOSE DECORATIONS SPOKE EXCLUSIVELY WITH OUR ALANA FLOOD. IT’S SAD. THE INFLATABLES HAVE BEEN OUT FOR MANY YEARS, AND THEY’RE SUPPOSED TO BRING JOY FOR THIS SEASON. AND THAT KIND OF ...

Landing on Mars is a nightmare — the air is too thin for parachutes alone, the ground is a field of jagged rocks, and the signal delay means you can’t save the craft in real time. NASA’s solution was ...

For the first time in its 25-year history, all eight docking ports on the International Space Station are occupied, according to NASA. The rare "orbital traffic jam" occurred after Northrop Grumman's ...

In the 1960s, NASA launched enormous reflective spheres called Echo satellites — massive inflatable orbs the size of skyscrapers. Their purpose wasn’t science fiction but communication: to bounce ...

The ability of Russia to launch astronauts to the International Space Station remains in limbo after an incident last week at the Baikonur base in Kazakhstan. By Kenneth Chang The launchpad Russia ...