NASA astronaut Don Pettit is set to return to Earth on his 70th birthday, April 19th, after a 220-day mission aboard the International Space Station. This marks his fourth spaceflight, bringing ...

Soccer may be the world’s most popular sport, with billions of people across the globe both watching and playing the ...

There is no single definition of "astronaut," leading to debate over who qualifies for the title. Reaching the Kármán line (62 miles above sea level) is a common benchmark, but NASA and the Air ...

After Katy Perry, Lauren Sanchez and four other women blasted into space yesterday, Blue Origin proudly declared that they had officially become astronauts. 'We just completed our 11th human ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — NASA astronaut Jonny Kim is currently in Star City, Russia, preparing for his Tuesday, April 8, launch to the International Space Station, his first spaceflight. Kim will ...

Astronaut Nichole Ayers letting her hair loose in gravity. (ISS/NASA / SWNS) By Dean Murray One astronaut has been having a hair-raising time since arriving on the International Space Station ...

the edge of space – or the point where we consider spacecraft and astronauts to have entered space, known as the Von Karman Line – is only 62 miles (100 kilometers) above sea level.” ...

Katy Perry is undertaking final preparations before she joins an all-female crew on a BlueOrigin space flight. The US popstar will join five other women for the first female-only mission in more ...