Astronauts

Installing a wireless network on the Moon is just one step toward establishing a long-term human presence there

A trio of astronauts who carried an Olympic torch for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games into space last year, have landed safely despite bad weather.

Space station astronauts have repaired a crippled cooling system during a rare Christmas Eve spacewalk.

Two astronauts aboard the International Space Station have begun a spacewalk to try to fix an ammonia leak in a cooling system.

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An astronaut living at the International Space Station has taken South Africa to new heights by tweeting pictures of the country as seen from space.

Nasa astronauts’ brain scans, who returned from space after a month, have shown dangerous abnormalities that could hamper future space trips.

The Soyuz spacecraft carrying two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut has docked at the International Space Station.

One of the first space walking astronauts to repair the Hubble State Telescope described his experience in space as "always kind of fun".

The dream that refuses to die is that one day humans will climb Olympus Mons, and descend into Marineris.

The sons of a Russian cosmonaut and a United States astronaut met in space on Tuesday.

Astronauts opened up Japan’s new billion-dollar space-station lab on Thursday, then got ready for another spacewalk.