The international crew from four different countries will conduct scientific experiments, NASA says, such as the physiological aspects of astronauts’ sleep and the collection of microbial samples from ...

Experts are hoping to collect microbiological samples to study how microbes behave, and possibly thrive, in harsh environments—but the harsh environment in question isn’t anywhere near where you’d ...

On Aug. 1, 2025, the SpaceX Crew-11 astronaut mission launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, headed for the International Space Station (ISS), which sits in low Earth orbit (LEO) at ...

The International Space Station (ISS) is about to be boosted using a new method, 26 years after the orbiting laboratory first launched. Though you might imagine that the ISS could orbit the Earth long ...