Major Tom was one of the first musical characters that David Bowie created. He wound up appearing in a few songs, but which ...

Ian Anderson has always celebrated artists willing to push the boundaries of creativity, which comes in the form of sound and ...

As NASA prepared astronauts for its second mission into space, National Geographic had exclusive behind-the-scenes access for ...

The Shenzhou 20 spacecraft was too damaged to bring its crew home from China’s Tiangong space station. Those astronauts have ...

Before the United States and the Soviet Union put a man on the moon, they sent missions with live animals to outer space. Neither nation would send humans before ensuring they could do it safely.

A new "exosuit," tested during a two-week space analog mission last month in Australia run by the Austrian Space Forum, hopes ...

Not long before Shenzhou-20 was set to carry the three home it was struck by a piece of space debris, leaving cracks in one ...

This year is the 25th anniversary of humans inhabiting the International Space Station. A new PBS documentary looks at how the ISS was built and the challenges of surviving in outer space.