The Latest Breaking News from Space Station

The departing Shenzhou 16 astronauts handed over control of the Tiangong space station to the newly arrived Shenzhou 17 crew during a short ceremony on Sunday (Oct. 29).

Scientists successfully grew mouse embryos aboard the International Space Station in a landmark study that implies humans could reproduce in space.

President Vladimir Putin said the first segment of Russia’s new orbital station, which Moscow sees as the next logical development in space exploration after the International Space Station should be put into operation by 2027.

Three astronauts have returned to Earth after six months aboard China's orbiting space station

Japanese scientists successfully grew mouse embryos in space, demonstrating that mammals may be able to thrive in microgravity. Embryos were sent to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2021, thawed and grown for four days. Analysis of the blastocysts that were sent back to Earth showed no significant changes in…

A pink glow is shining on the faces of enthusiastic students as they tend to plants in purpose-built grow boxes for space stations.

The ISS is destined to be sent spiralling into the Pacific Ocean in 2031, yet the controversy over the £120bn behemoth continues

The novelist who’s been likened to Virginia Woolf on her new book set on the International Space Station, how insomnia has changed the way she thinks – and her fascination with time and faith

China has launched its youngest-ever crew for its orbiting space station as it seeks to put astronauts on the moon before 2030

The UK Space Agency has signed a ‘groundbreaking’ agreement to send a UK team of astronauts to the International Space Station to carry out scientific experiments in microgravity.

China has announced plans to send a new telescope to probe deep into the universe as it prepared to launch the country's next three-member crew for its orbiting space station