Cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin of the Russian space agency Roscosmos passed control of the orbiting lab over to Takuya Onishi of ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit and two cosmonaut colleagues will return to Earth from the International Space Station (ISS) on ...

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A striking time-lapse video features the ISS flying above cities at night before passing over a stunning aurora.

Incredible International Space Station photos of Mount Everest have been released ahead of the return of three astronauts ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit -- NASA’s oldest active astronaut at 69 -- arrived at the station last week on his fourth trip to ...

Jonny Kim was a doctor and Navy SEAL before becoming a NASA astronaut. He launched on Russian spacecraft Soyuz for his first ...

No one saw Earth's poles from space in the more than 400 human spaceflight missions preceding Fram2. The closest any crew ...

During his space walk on the fourth day of the Apollo 9 mission, Astronaut Russell Schweickart shot photos of Astronaut David Scott, who was standing in an open hatch of the command module (Gumdrop).

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A Russian spacecraft safely delivered an American astronaut Jonathan Kim and two Russian cosmonauts to the International ...