Boeing's Starliner astronauts are in the final stretch of their unexpectedly long stint in Earth orbit — and they're setting ...

Gill processed this image and it was released on Jan. 12. A firestorm of star birth lights up one end of the diminutive galaxy LEDA 36252, also known as Kiso 5649, in this Hubble Space Telescope ...

And though weightlessness allows astronauts to spin, rotate, and float through the air, it has a downside. Without the force of gravity to fight against, muscles of the body begin to deteriorate ...

President Trump vowed Monday to be the first commander-in-chief to put US astronauts on Mars ... in favor of more robotic adventures into the galaxy. Trump confidant Elon Musk has predicted ...

This photo provided by the European Space Agency shows a ring of light surrounding the center of the galaxy NGC 6505, captured by European Space Agency's Euclid telescope, an example of an ...

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station ... a hypothesis suggesting that life originated elsewhere in the galaxy before reaching and colonizing Earth. For this to be plausible, some ...

Christian Davenport The Washington Post Jun 15, 2018 Jun 15, 2018 Updated Feb 7, 2025 HOUSTON—The journey to outer space for American astronauts for the past seven years has begun at a Soviet ...