Here on Earth, we tend to take showers for granted. But for astronauts stationed in space, taking a quick rinse—much like ...

On Feb. 8, 1974, the last crew of the Skylab space station returned to Earth. Skylab was the first and only American space station, and it supported three crewed missions. The third and final mission ...

In 1587, Mary Queen of Scots was beheaded, charged with conspiring to kill England's Queen Elizabeth I. In 1692, a doctor in ...

Mary, Queen Of Scots is beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle aged 44. 1601: Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, leads ...

Where the astronauts sat in the Apollo Lunar Module may have profoundly impacted the way the experience of walking on the ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit shared a mesmerizing photograph of the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, taken from the International Space Station. Pettit's remarkable space photography ...

Rachel is a dusty, hardscrabble spot, located in the Joshua tree desert just outside Area 51, that highly guarded Air Force ...

Astronauts spend months living in space, where they eat, sleep, work, exercise, and even play games. This raises a simple yet intriguing question: do they wash their clothes? Until a few years ago, ...

Late Tuesday afternoon, Elon Musk put out a message on X saying that President Donald Trump had asked him to return the two Boeing Starliner astronauts who have been on the space station since ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s two stuck astronauts took their first spacewalk together Thursday, exiting the International Space Station almost eight months after moving in. Commander Suni ...

President Donald Trump directs SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to 'go get' Starliner astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore have been on International Space Station since June but NASA says the two are not ...