The Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo spacecraft was captured by the International Space Station's robotic arm. Credit: NASA ...

Extraterrestrial landers sent to gather samples from the surface of distant moons and planets have limited time and battery ...

Blue tentacle-like arms attached to an Astrobee free-flying robot grab onto a "capture cube" in this image from Feb. 4, 2025.

So the return of Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore has never been a political story—until this week. And it's a good thing that ...

NASA astronaut Suni Williams was undertaking a repair on the ISS when she was photographed from Earth by an amateur ...

Suni Williams has officially logged the most spacewalking time for any female astronaut, reaching an astounding 62 hours and 6 minutes. NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore successfully ...

NASA is testing new robot grippers that could one day remove space debris and help repair satellites in Earth’s orbit. On ...

The Canadarm 2 robotic arm delivering Suni Williams to a worksite during a spacewalk outside the ISS. NASA NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore completed their spacewalk at the ...

Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will conduct a spacewalk outside the International Space Station to swab the ...

After configuring their tethers and tools, Wilmore moved to the RFG work site while Williams rode the Canadarm2 robotic arm to meet him at the S-band antenna on the starboard (or right-hand) side of ...

The lander, which launched in May 2018, was the first outer space robotic explorer to study the inner space of Mars in depth.

Williams and Wilmore both arrived at the ISS last June, aboard the first crewed test flight of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft. The astronauts were only slated for a 10-day mission, but issues with ...