As the government shutdown enters its third week, "Saturday Night Live" joked federal furloughs would have left the "Gravity" astronauts reliant on janitors in Houston to keep them alive. With just ...

The astronauts rescued by Elon Musk after being in space for nine months rebuffed a Fox News reporter’s efforts to mete out blame for their predicament. “Based on how they were couching this—that we ...

As space exploration pushes further into the unknown, new challenges are emerging, particularly for long-duration missions. While astronauts may eventually make it to Mars, research indicates that ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Two astronauts from the U.S. and Russia were safe after an emergency landing Thursday in the steppes of Kazakhstan following the ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- NASA asked an astronaut aboard the international space station to exercise vigorously Friday, hoping the rapid movement would jostle a half-retracted solar wing that ...