The space agency is looking to maintain human presence in the microgravity environment as it transitions to commercial stations.

Don Pettit packed a home-made tracker to space, allowing him to bless our timelines with long-exposure images.

The flying specks of light are Starlink satellites, far from a celestial wonder.

The Progress 90 cargo ship arrived at the ISS with three tons of supplies, and a foul odor.

The spacecraft delivered food and supplies to the ISS, but its cargo might be contaminated.

The human body was not made for space, but we keep trying to go there anyway.

Astronauts on board the ISS took longer to perform certain tasks, raising concern over the effects spaceflight has on the human brain.

Officials from NASA and Russia’s space agency don’t see eye to eye on the causes and risks of small but persistent air leaks on the International Space Station.

That was the word from the new chair of NASA's International Space Station Advisory Committee last week. The air leaks are located in the transfer tunnel of the space station's Russian Zvezda service module, one of the oldest elements of the complex.

US and Russian officials "don't have a common understanding of what the likely root cause is, or the severity of the consequences of these leaks," said Bob Cabana, a retired NASA astronaut who took the helm of the advisory committee earlier this year. Cabana replaced former Apollo astronaut Tom Stafford, who chaired the committee before he died in March.

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