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 The ...

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are potentially days away from heading back to Earth and putting the whole Boeing Starliner debacle behind them for good. In less than a week, the ...

WASHINGTON, March 18 (Reuters) - NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams returned to Earth in a SpaceX capsule on Tuesday with a soft splashdown off Florida's coast, nine months after their ...

If you didn’t know, two NASA astronauts have officially been stranded in space for over 280 days as of Friday, March 14, 2025. And they’re scheduled to potentially return to earth next week, no ...

Working in space is more than floating in microgravity. Astronauts train intensely and use advanced tools to not only survive, but also conduct advanced scientific research. Given the difficulties, ...

MIT astronauts aboard the International Space Station—and the MIT researchers who have sent up experiments—have advanced our understanding of science, space, and the universe. On November 2, 2000, ...