Operating in orbit demands engineering solutions beyond what any airliner or rocket could offer—and the Space Shuttle ...

Pettit, NASA's oldest active astronaut, is celebrating his 70th birthday while landing in Kazakhstan after 220 days in space.

A space homecoming is coming soon as NASA astronaut Don Pettit and two Russian cosmonauts wrap up a 220-day orbital mission ...

Four decades later, astronaut Marsha Ivins and cinematographer James Neihouse reveal stories from the making of the ...

A proposed mission seeks to retrieve Vanguard-1 and display it as an ancient relic of the space age.

Astronaut Don Pettit, who has been at the International Space Station since September, is set to land Saturday in Kazakhstan ...

Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev spent twice as much time in space than his team had planned after his country stopped ...

Dr. Mae Jemison, the first Black woman to go into space, was not amused by comments made by a CBS News host on Monday morning ...

They were among the six women who made a 10-minute trip on Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket, as the first all-female space ...