28 October 2021
Blue Origin is one of a number of firms hoping to build a commercial space station, but it isn't clear any will be ready before the International Space Station reaches the end of its life
27 April 2021
China is about to launch the first section of a new space station, beginning a massive orbital construction project that is expected to end in 2022 with an outpost about a quarter of the size of the International Space Station
23 April 2021
Astronauts from NASA, the ESA and Japanese space agency JAXA have blasted off to the International Space Station on a reused SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule and Falcon 9 rocket
7 October 2020
This spectacular image from inside the International Space Station's observation dome peeks through clouds to reveal Earth's oceans from 400 kilometres away
26 August 2020
Bacteria strapped to the outside of the International Space Station were still alive three years later, suggesting that microbes could travel on asteroids between planets
6 March 2020
Lettuce grown on the International Space Station has been served with tacos and cheeseburgers, and it turns out to be just as nutritious as the Earth-grown version
19 December 2019
Boeing’s Starliner will launch to the International Space Station on 20 December. This first flight will carry cargo but the next one is expected to take passengers
15 November 2019
Spending time in microgravity can reverse the flow of a person’s blood and lead to clots, as seen in astronauts who spent months on the International Space Station
7 November 2019
Spaceflight causes thousands of changes in the ways heart cell genes are expressed, but these revert mostly to normal within weeks of being back on Earth
2 October 2019
Does the ISS have a phone number? Do ISS astronauts have smartphones or handsets? And does anything in the space station “ring” when an audio call is set up? We spoke to the communications experts who help the world talk to astronauts on the orbiting...
