Chinese scientists discovered a novel strain of bacterium with “unique abilities” that allowed it to thrive on the Tiangong Space Station, according to a report. The newly named Niallia ...

“The International Space Station is dead; long live the International Space Station” may well be what headlines read five years from now after the landmark space station is decommissioned and ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and two Russian crewmates ...

Before the International Space Station was launched into orbit in 1998, the U.S. signed a document with several other countries to agree to the peaceful use of the orbital laboratory. The ...

Thales Alenia Space Italia is building the new PPTM module for Axiom Space using components originally made for habitat modules. Credit: Axiom Space WASHINGTON — Axiom Space is revising the ...

An incoming piece of space junk recently prompted the International Space Station to take action to maneuver itself out of harm's way. A Russian cargo ship docked at the space station fired its ...

Some of the main modules of the International Space Station are nearly a quarter-century old. "That's considered classic for a car," said Bennett Maruca, an astronomer and physicist at the ...

Bacteria on board the International Space Station (ISS) have evolved new traits in order to survive in low Earth orbit, and some show signs of increased virulence. Microbes from Earth have made ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A Soyuz spacecraft carrying two Russians and an ...

Archaeology in space: The Sampling Quadrangle Assemblages Research Experiment (SQuARE) on the International Space Station. Report 1: Squares 03 and 05 . PLOS ONE , 2024; 19 (8): e0304229 DOI: 10. ...

People have proposed saving the International Space Station. They think it cost about $200 billion to build it. However, most of those costs were the $1-2 billion spent for each Space shuttle launch.

Two astronauts ventured outside of China's Tiangong space station last week to armor its exterior against incoming space debris kicked up by an exploding Russian satellite. The news comes after a ...