Space is one of the most dangerous frontiers, yet astronauts have repeatedly defied death through skill, technology, and ...

Not many know that the first spacewalk by Soviet Cosmonaut Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov could have ended in tragedy owing to ...

Engineers have had to come up with some interesting ways to generate oxygen in the vacuum of space.

After Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore returned earlier this week, many of us have been asking what happens to a dead body ...

The programme is part of the UAE’s broader commitment to advancing human spaceflight capabilities and preparing for ...

During the ongoing Shenzhou XIX mission, Cai made his third spacewalk with Song on Dec 17, spending more than nine hours ...

Since those early steps, extravehicular activity has helped provide the solutions to many problems that astronauts face in ...

The only perk is a daily “incidentals” allowance that is a standard $5 per day for any location on the business trip — even ...

On 18 March 1965, during the Voskhod 2 mission, Alexei Leonov exited his spacecraft (tethered by a long cord) to experience floating in space, thus making the history books for the first ever ...

While the space race of the 1960s was a contest between two rival superpowers, today it is being fought by private space ...

This screen image captured at Beijing Aerospace Control Center on March 21, 2025 shows Shenzhou-19 astronaut Cai Xuzhe performing extravehicular activities ...

NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 mission astronauts will return to Earth on March 18 after achieving significant advancements in ...