NASA’s Crew-11 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) is coming to an unexpectedly abrupt end. The four astronauts who make up the mission crew will be returned to Earth “within the coming days” after the agency decided to end their stay ...

JUST MINUTES AGO, A LOCAL ASTRONAUT BLASTING OFF INTO SPACE. EMSWORTH NATIVE MIKE FINK IS THE PILOT FOR CREW 11 AND WILL SPEND THE NEXT 6 TO 8 MONTHS ON THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. THE LAUNCH WAS SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN YESTERDAY, BUT AS WE BROUGHT YOU ...

The three-person crew will spend about eight months aboard the orbital laboratory conducting scientific research. This mission comes as the ISS marks 25 years of continuous human presence in orbit. NASA will provide live coverage of the launch and docking ...

In this photo taken from video released by Roscosmos space corporation, the Soyuz-2.1 rocket booster with Soyuz MS-28 space ship carrying NASA astronaut Chris Williams and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergey Mikaev, a new crew to the ...

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (KABC) -- NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik used to walk the grounds of Santa Monica High School, but today, he is floating on the International Space Station. To the thrill of students at the school, Bresnik and fellow astronaut Joe Acaba ...

When astronauts leave the protective bubble of the Earth's magnetic field, they will be vulnerable to cosmic and solar radiation. High energy particles from the sun or from outside our solar system can raise radiation levels by as much as 150 times above those on Earth, damaging DNA and increasing the lifetime risk of cancer.