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Space debris twice flew past the football-field-sized modular space station on Monday morning, forcing American and Russian crew members to seek shelter.

"It's really been a nice morale boost, as well as an interesting science project," said one astronaut.

Pools of urine were discovered in the capsule due to a loosened pipe. Despite the break, the capsule is otherwise safe to board and return in.

The noise of the Cargo Dragon capsule travelling through the air after completing a resupply mission to the International Space Station was so loud it shook some people's homes.

The spacewalk will be the 242nd conducted in support of assembly, maintenance and upgrade tasks on the ISS.

Henri is expected to continue to bring heavy rainfall across parts of southern New England and the northern Mid-Atlantic states on Monday.

Seven astronauts aboard the International Space Station attempted four events: lack-of-floor-routine, no-handball, synchronised space swimming and weightless sharpshooting.

An issue with a Russian space module that had recently docked with the ISS caused the Starliner launch to be postponed.

The departure of the Cargo Dragon 2 spacecraft from the International Space Station was delayed by the presence of Tropical Storm Elsa in the Gulf of Mexico.

The rocket blasted off on Tuesday evening, carrying important supplies including oxygen, food, and water to the space hub.

NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough and Thomas Pesquet from the ESA successfully deployed a new solar panel on the International Space Station.

The planned Chinese station, named Tiangong, is expected to be completed in 2022.

Astronauts representing Japan and the European Space Agency were also on-board the craft.

Video clips document the spacewalk from start to finish, showing the pair at work during their seven-hour mission in the vacuum of space.

A look at those to have been named as nominees for the coveted prize, before the winner is revealed later in the year.

The photograph was taken by one of the astronauts onboard as the space station flew over the Caribbean Sea.

The Richard Branson-founded space tourism company announced today it has signed a Space Act Agreement with NASA's Johnson Space Center—and shares jumped 13 percent in premarket trading.

Cold Atom Lab experiment led to the production of Bose–Einstein condensates.

Before launching astronauts to the International Space Station, great care is already taken to prevent the crew from bringing potentially dangerous viruses and pathogens onboard with them.

Red romaine grown on board the International Space Station found to be just as good as plants cultivated on Earth.

The Mississippi River Delta, visible in the images, is the seventh largest river delta on Earth.

During the mission, Koch took part in what was the first all-female spacewalk alongside NASA astronaut Jessica Meir.

The volcano is infamous for a catastrophic eruption in 79 A.D. that destroyed the Roman settlements of Pompeii, Herculaneum, Oplontis and Stabiae.

"Australia. Our hearts and thoughts are with you," Koch wrote in a Twitter post.

The research could expand our understanding of how plants react to the stresses of space travel.

The photo was snapped by Jessica Meir, who took part in the first all-female spacewalk last month.

The explosion occurred on the surface of a pulsar around 11,000 light-years away.

The composite image was made of over 400 photos taken as the International Space Station moved over Namibia to the Red Sea.

The spacewalk is expected to last more than five hours, according to NASA.

This is the first time in over fifty years of space exploration that two women will space-walk at the same time.