NASA's latest collection of best science images of 2024 offers a fascinating glimpse into the work that goes on the ISS as it zooms 250 miles overhead at speeds of 17,500 miles per hour.

NASA's mission that was scheduled for Thursday is important because astronauts Tracy C. Dyson and Matthew Dominick would have been looking for microorganisms that exited the ISS through vents and ...

The ISS is maintained by five space agencies and their contractors including NASA, the Canadian Space Agency, the European Space Agency, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and Roscosmos in Russia.

NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore have said they were unaware of any offer by Elon Musk to bring them back to Earth early, in a press conference from the International Space Station ...

The ISS, parts of which date to 1998, is experiencing a leak on its Russian side that was pegged as the top "safety risk" in a NASA audit published on Sept. 26.

NASA says that the International Space Station (ISS) shifted its orbit on Tuesday to avoid a piece of debris. The debris avoidance maneuver involved firing thrusters on the ISS at 2:09 p.m. CT for ...

The ISS launched on Nov. 25, 1998, but it was on Dec. 6 that year that one of the first elements of the ISS, Unity, was attached to the already orbiting Zarya module, according to NASA.

NASA says the structure's finite life-span is due to thermal cycling; wear from the dockings and undockings of spacecraft; and other factors. In short, NASA says that after 2030, the ISS simply ...

The International Space Station as pictured from a SpaceX Crew Dragon during a November 2021 fly around. (Image credit: NASA) The International Space Station's final nine years are going to be busy.

Feb. 1 (UPI) -- NASA has released details of the International Space Station's transition plan, including destruction of the structure in 2031, and research goals for the interim and the future.