How is it possible for the ISS to stay in orbit? Learn more about the science behind orbiting Earth and more in this NASA ...

The secret behind how the International Space Station remains in orbit can be traced all the ... the centripetal force directed toward the center of Earth and the force of Earth's gravity that's ...

NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick and Don Pettit describe their photography skills snapping images of the Earth ... orbit. Dominick, who is currently on board the International Space Station ...

A NASA astronaut onboard the International Space Station has shared 'breathtaking' images of 'the world and beyond'.

Dragon on-orbit shortly ... returned to Earth from a mission aboard the International Space Station will take part this week in a welcome-home ceremony at NASA's space center in Texas.

Weighing 400 tonnes (880,000 lbs), equivalent to more than 400 elephants, the ISS is so large that it can't actually stay in such a low-Earth orbit unassisted. As it orbits, the station constantly ...

For comparison, the typical ISS orbit is 250 miles (400 km) above Earth. The SpaceX deorbit vehicle ... crew program at NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, said in a briefing earlier ...

The International Space Station (ISS) orbits high above our heads, yet the pull of Earth's gravity never hauls the complex out of orbit and sends ... directed toward the center of curvature.