An anonymous readers this surprising story from Mashable:

When a Russian spaceship docked as a lifeboat for three stranded men at the International Space Station in February, one may have wondered if Sergei Krikalev, heading the rescue mission, felt a…

SpaceX is livestreaming coverage of its latest launch tonight. SpaceX and NASA were “preparing to launch a fresh crew to the International Space Station,” reports CNN, “continuing the public-private effort to keep the orbiting laboratory fully staffed …

Russia launched a Soyuz spacecraft that will replace a capsule that sprang a coolant leak in December, leaving two cosmonauts and one NASA astronaut without a ride home. CNN reports: Liftoff of the capsule, called the Soyuz MS-23, took place out of Rus…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Vast Space, a company that emerged from stealth last September with the aim of building artificial gravity space stations in low Earth orbit, has acquired space tug startup Launcher, TechCrunch has e…

Russia’s space agency will hold off returning three astronauts from the International Space Station as it works with NASA to investigate a coolant leak issue that impacted an uncrewed freighter spacecraft last weekend. The Register reports: The Progres…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Russia said on Wednesday it would launch another Soyuz spacecraft next month to bring home two cosmonauts and a U.S. astronaut from the International Space Station after their original capsule was struc…

“Aboard the International Space Station right now is a metal box, the size of a desktop PC tower,” reports Popular Mechanics. “Inside, a nozzle is helping build little test parts that aren’t possible to make on Earth.”

The Washington Post reports:

B…