Space travel has always carried a certain mystique—a mix of wonder, danger, and unimaginable loneliness. We hear stories of ...

A Russian spacecraft safely delivered an American astronaut Jonathan Kim and two Russian cosmonauts to the International ...

Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev spent twice as much time in space than his team had planned after his country stopped ...

Russia is also losing its role as a pivotal player in space cooperation. Since Moscow’s ties to the West are effectively ...

The International Space Station has been orbiting our planet for decades, but how did it get up there and how long did it ...

From a spacecraft’s coolant leak to the disintegration of the Soviet Union, astronauts have gotten stuck in space for a variety of reasons over the decades of human spaceflight. By Claire Moses ...

An Astronaut became stranded in space for 311 days after his country stopped existing while he was in orbit. In 1991 Sergei ...