How Peggy Whitson stayed in shape for nine months aboard the ISS

Space is no place for battles of the bulge. That's why NASA insists on getting its astronauts into peak physical condition before sending them offworld. But aboard the ISS, in a living space the size of a football field, the human body will readily g...

A lawsuit almost stalled NASA’s Cassini mission

Captain Scott Kelly wasn't kidding when he famously quipped that "space is hard". Even getting to the launch pad can prove to be a daunting challenge. Take the Cassini mission to study Saturn, for example. Despite an investment of $3.4 billion and ne...

Watch Aurora Borealis From Space in this Time-lapse Video


Space can be the ideal vantage point to see some pretty cool sights. NASA astronaut, Scott Kelly, has seen the Aurora Borealis from the ISS and even made a video clip of it.He posted the video clip...

Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko will spend One Year in Space


Today the two men launched into space to begin an adventure no human has done before. NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko are on their...