The Latest Breaking News from ISS

NASA astronauts have spent seven months aboard the International Space Station, far exceeding their planned eight-day mission after safety concerns grounded their return spacecraft. Despite the extended stay, they remain focused on scientific research and maintenance tasks, with plans to return to Earth in April 2025 aboard a SpaceX vehicle.

SpaceX launched its first Falcon 9 rocket of 2025 as it sent the Thuraya 4 communications satellite to orbit from Cape Canaveral in Florida on Friday (Jan. 3).

Axiom Space has decided to change up the method for assembling its commercial space station, meaning the outpost could be free-flying as soon as 2028.

California-based company Vast Space has booked two crewed flights to the ISS with SpaceX, though the missions still must be approved by NASA.

The robot's flexible arms are a technology demonstration that could one day aid in satellite maintenance and space debris management.

Due to a delay with SpaceX's Dragon capsule, NASA's Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who were meant to spend 10 days in space in June 2024, will now not return to Earth until late March 2025 at the earliest, NASA announced.

Return pushed back to late March, stretching mission that was supposed to last only eight days to more than nine months

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will stay in space an extra month, until March 2025, giving SpaceX more time to complete a new Crew Dragon capsule.

An Astrobee robotic free-flyer with tentacle-like arms was tested in a demonstration experiment aboard the space station.