“Fewer astronauts, more robots” is the call of three European aerospace engineers, Alex Ellery, Joerg Kreidsel and Bernd Sommer.

Astronauts debuted the international space station’s newest piece of equipment Saturday during a successful but very limited test.

Astronauts opened up Japan’s new billion-dollar space station lab, then got ready for another spacewalk, this time to spruce up the outside of the huge addition.

Shuttle Discovery’s astronauts prepared for the first spacewalk of their mission Tuesday and the installation of Japan’s giant lab to the international space...

The seven astronauts aboard the space shuttle Discovery will deliver and install Japan’s massive lab, Kibo, or Hope, at the international space station. A look at the six men and one woman who will tackle the...

A Russian space capsule touched down in Kazakhstan after hurtling through Earth’s atmosphere in a steeper-than-normal descent, subjecting the three-nation-crew to severe G-forces and landing hundreds of miles off target. It was the second...

Astronauts who spend too much time in space may be at risk of premature ageing and cancer, research suggests.

Europe’s sophisticated new space truck, the ATV, is set to dock with the International Space Station (ISS). The unmanned vessel will deliver just under five tonnes of food, water, air, fuel and equipment to the orbiting platform’s...

Astronauts prepped Dextre the robot for its big move to a new perch outside the international space station on Tuesday after devoting nearly a week to putting together and creating the monster-size...

Astronauts got power flowing to the international space station’s new robot Friday night, overcoming a problem that had threatened to disrupt shuttle Endeavour’s construction...