A cargo ship is rocketing toward the International Space Station, carrying candy and cheese to satisfy the crew’s cravings.

High wind has delayed Northrop Grumman’s supply run to the International Space Station

NASA Astronaut Christina Koch returned to Earth Thursday, landing in Kazkhstan after wrapping up her record-setting 328-day mission in space.

The results are finally in for the first chocolate chip cookie bake-off in space. While looking more or less normal, the best cookies required two hours of baking time last month up at the International Space Station. It takes far less time on Earth, under 20 minutes. And how do they taste? No one knows. Still sealed in individual baking…

A U.S. astronaut set a record Saturday for the longest single spaceflight by a woman, breaking the old mark of 288 days with about two months left in her mission. Christina Koch, a 40-year-old electrical engineer from Livingston, Montana, arrived at the International Space Station on March 14. She broke the record set by former space station commander Peggy Whitson…

Ever wonder how astronauts celebrate Christmas in space? Well, the crew onboard the International Space Station shared a video showing how they are enjoying the holiday season.

Boeing’s new Starliner capsule ran into trouble in orbit Friday minutes after blasting off on its first test flight, a crucial dress rehearsal for next year’s inaugural launch with astronauts.

Companies are increasingly looking to space as a place of business, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has been changing in several different ways, especially by partnering with corporations to develop new technologies. Earlier this year NASA announced it would open the International Space Station to private astronauts, with short missions beginning as soon as 2020. Additionally, NASA said...

Middle schoolers in Loudoun County made contact with humans 254 miles above Earth. They got to talk to a NASA astronaut on board the International Space Station. News4’s Drew Wilder reports.

The astronauts who took part in the first all-female spacewalk are still uplifted by all the excitement down on Earth. International Space Station resident Jessica Meir, from Maine, said Monday that when she floated outside last week, she wasn’t thinking about whether she was going out with a man or woman because everyone is held to the same standard.

The world’s first all-female spacewalking team made history high above Earth on Friday, replacing a broken part of the International Space Station’s power grid. As NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir completed the job with wrenches, screwdrivers and power-grip tools, it marked the first time in a half-century of spacewalking that men weren’t part of the action. They insisted...

NASA has moved up the first all-female spacewalk to this week because of a power system failure at the International Space Station.

The first all-female spacewalk is back on, six months after a suit-sizing flap led to an embarrassing cancellation.

A NASA astronaut is accused of hacking her estranged spouse’s bank account from space. Astronaut Anne McClain allegedly accessed the bank account of Summer Worden, while aboard the International Space Station this year, according to NBC affiliate KPRC in Houston. The two women are in a custody battle over a 6-year-old son who was conceived through in vitro fertilization and...

Local students met with Astronaut Mike Foreman as part of a competition to get a science experiment on the International Space Station.

A Russian space capsule with three astronauts aboard has docked with the International Space Station after a fast-track trip to the orbiting laboratory. The Soyuz capsule docked at 22:48 GMT Saturday, just six hours and 20 minutes after blasting off from Russia’s launch complex in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The launch took place on the 50th anniversary of the day U.S. astronauts...

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first human to step foot on the moon, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum is hosting a five-day celebration in the museum and on the National Mall.

Neil Armstrong’s original space suit may be out-of-this-world, but the job of sewing it fell into the hands of ordinary seamstresses. News4’s Cory Smith has the story.

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first human to step foot on the moon, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum is hosting a five-day celebration in the museum and on the National Mall.

The Smithsonian is planning a festival to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the moon landing. Derrick Ward reports.