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European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet attached to the tip of the robotic arm at the International Space Station during a spacewalk on Wednesday (June 16). During the 7 hour and 15 minute spacewalk, Pesquet and his colleague NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough installed a new...

The UAE’s Nora al-Matrooshi is the first Arab woman to start training to be an astronaut, one of two Emiratis picked from thousands of applicants as the Gulf nation looks to the stars. The 28-year-old mechanical engineer from Sharjah—one of the seven emirates that make...

Researchers from the University of Tsukuba have sent mice into space to explore effects of spaceflight and reduced gravity on muscle atrophy, or wasting, at the molecular level. Gravity is a constant force on Earth, which all living creatures have evolved to rely on and...

For the first time in 11 years, the European Space Agency (Esa) is recruiting new astronauts. Applications will open on the 31 March 2021 for eight weeks, followed by a six-stage selection process to identify the next generation of European astronauts. By 2030, humans will...

Astronauts may have no trouble moving heavy objects in the weightlessness of space, but that doesn’t mean that the experience isn’t hard on their backs. Astronauts on long-duration spaceflights routinely report back pain, both during and after the flight. Now doctors think they know what’s...

Skywatchers on Earth weren’t the only ones dazzled by the so-called weekend “supermoon” on Saturday. An astronaut in space also snapped spectacular photos of the full moon of May, including views of a squashed moon sinking behind the Earth’s horizon. Dutch astronaut André Kuipers photographed...

John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth and the oldest person to fly in space, died today after a long and storied career. Well, make that careers. To say the least, Glenn was a multitalented man. He was a decorated Marine fighter pilot in...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau may have made a huge splash when he named as many women as men to his cabinet, and when asked why, answered, “Because it’s 2015.” But NASA beat him to the 50-50 split by two years when in 2013 named...

“The fact that I applied 15 times to become an astronaut has not been lost on my friends, followers or fans,” astronaut Clay Anderson wrote in his autobiography “Ordinary Spaceman.” For him, the 16th time proved to be the charm. Anderson was finally selected to...