WASHINGTON/SEATTLE: NASA will allow private citizens to stay at the International Space Station (ISS) for month-long getaways at a cost of about $35,000 per night, the US space agency said . The shift reverses a long-standing prohibition against tourists and private interests at the orbiting ...

MOSCOW - Russia on Thursday successfully launched a Progress MS-11 unpiloted cargo resupply spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS), the Russian state space corporation Roscosmos said in a statement. The launch of the spacecraft by the Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket was carried out at 14:01 ...

Pakistan has expressed deep concern over the assessment of relevant organizations and international experts on the threats resulting from space debris generated by the recently conducted Anti-Satellite weapon test by India. In a statement today, the Foreign Office Spokesperson said the reports that ...

MOSCOW - Russia launched checks Tuesday after its space chief said an air leak on the International Space Station last week could have been caused by deliberate sabotage. Space agency chief Dmitry Rogozin said the hole detected Thursday in a Russian space craft docked at the orbiting station was ...

*MOSCOW - The International Space Station has reported a collision with a meteorite which has damaged the space station.* * A “leak” has been caused most likely by a collision with a small meteorite, the head of the Russian space agency said, adding the incident presented no ...

SpaceX is poised for the 50th launch of its signature Falcon 9 rocket early Tuesday, marking a swift ascent to a milestone many aerospace giants take far longer to attain. The launch of the Falcon 9 carrying the Hispasat, a Spanish telecommunications and broadband satellite, is scheduled for 12:33 ...

MOSCOW - An unmanned Russian cargo ship has docked successfully at the International Space Station. The Russian space agency Roscosmos said the Progress spacecraft moored at the station today in automatic mode, bringing 2.7 metric tons of food, fuel and instruments. It was launched Tuesday from ...

MOSCOW:Russia is planning to send paying tourists on the International Space Station out on spacewalks for the first time. It was stated by head of Russian space company Energia, Vladimir Solntsev while talking to Russian news Agency. He said space tourism is a developing sector currently dominated ...

Two cosmonauts took a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on February 2 to tackle a long-awaited upgrade to the communications system on the Russian side of the orbiting laboratory. They also set a new record for the longest Russian spacewalk, after spending 8 hours and 13 minutes ...

A Japanese astronaut has apologised for wrongly stating he has grown 9cm (3.5in) since arriving at the International Space Station (ISS) just over three weeks ago. Norishige Kanai said in fact he grew by 2cm, blaming "a measurement mistake". "I'm very sorry for tweeting out such fake news," he ...