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European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet attached to the tip of the robotic arm at the International Space Station during a spacewalk on Wednesday (June 16). During the 7 hour...

The UAE’s Nora al-Matrooshi is the first Arab woman to start training to be an astronaut, one of two Emiratis picked from thousands of applicants as the Gulf nation looks...

Researchers from the University of Tsukuba have sent mice into space to explore effects of spaceflight and reduced gravity on muscle atrophy, or wasting, at the molecular level. Gravity is...

For the first time in 11 years, the European Space Agency (Esa) is recruiting new astronauts. Applications will open on the 31 March 2021 for eight weeks, followed by a...

Astronauts may have no trouble moving heavy objects in the weightlessness of space, but that doesn’t mean that the experience isn’t hard on their backs. Astronauts on long-duration spaceflights routinely...

Skywatchers on Earth weren’t the only ones dazzled by the so-called weekend «supermoon» on Saturday. An astronaut in space also snapped spectacular photos of the full moon of May, including...

John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth and the oldest person to fly in space, died today after a long and storied career. Well, make that careers. To say...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau may have made a huge splash when he named as many women as men to his cabinet, and when asked why, answered, «Because it’s 2015.»...

«The fact that I applied 15 times to become an astronaut has not been lost on my friends, followers or fans,» astronaut Clay Anderson wrote in his autobiography «Ordinary Spaceman.»...