The end may not be so near for the International Space Station (ISS), at least not until a privately owned alternative has filled its orbital shoes. The U.S. Senate advanced a revised version of a ...

NASA could soon be scrambling to shore up the U.S.’s presence in low-Earth orbit, thanks to a key Senate committee that wants the space agency to extend the life of the International Space Station ...

For instance, and this would be very, very bad: a puncture wound. In the vacuum of space, the amount of debris—spent rocket stages, splintered satellites, micrometeoroids—numbers in the millions, all ...

Command over the International Space Station (ISS) has changed hands. In a ceremony onboard the station on Monday, NASA astronaut Mike Fincke relinquished the charge of the ISS’s Expedition 74 over to ...

For the first time, astronauts are being evacuated from the International Space Station (ISS) for medical reasons. The exact nature of the “medical situation” has not been identified for privacy ...

NASA is considering a rare early return of its crew from the International Space Station over an unspecified medical issue involving one of the astronauts, after cancelling a planned spacewalk that ...

With the International Space Station (ISS) set to retire in 2030, several nations and commercial space companies have plans to deploy their own successor stations. This includes China, which plans to ...

What does it take to build a home in the most unforgiving environment known to humanity, space? The International Space Station (ISS), a marvel of modern engineering, answers this question with its ...

The International Space Station (ISS) may soon become slightly less international. Russia’s only launch site capable of sending humans to orbit has suffered serious damage that could put it out of ...

The Federal Trade Commission is investigating whether proxy advisory firms Institutional Shareholder Services and Glass Lewis violated antitrust laws through their business of guiding shareholder ...

You may have heard people say that aboard the International Space Station (ISS) there's "zero gravity," but in fact, gravity is still very much present. The station orbits Earth at an altitude of ...

After more than two decades in orbit, the NASA is planning to end the International Space Station's journey. NASA has confirmed that the ISS will be decommissioned and deliberately brought down to ...