The ISS orbits the Earth at an altitude of around 250 miles (400 kilometres), completing one rotation every 93 minutes. This allows it to experience 16 sunrises and sunsets every day.

Elon Musk recently called for the ISS to be deorbited "as soon as possible." Experts say the station provides vital research, ...

The International Space Station (ISS) could face an earlier-than-expected end if Elon Musk gets his way. The billionaire ...

As part of NASA's International Art and Poetry Contest, Thad McCauley's students got to work creating art that could be ...

Elon Musk has called for the deorbiting of the floating laboratory that is regularly used by multiple nations as it serves ...

Elon Musk's latest space-related hammer throw is to call for it to be deorbited as soon as two years from now.

Elon Musk has called for the deorbiting of the International Space Station (ISS) in two years, several years earlier than its ...

Elon Musk has made unfounded claims that two NASA astronauts were left on the space station for "political reasons" after ...

From space, Mecca appears as a city of light and contrast, with winding roads threading through rugged mountains. The radiant Great Mosque of Mecca and the Kaaba stand at its heart, a spiritual beacon ...

Elon Musk fumed at a International Space Station astronaut who called out his lies, then immediately called for the station's ...

European Space Agency (ESA) reserve astronaut John McFall has just become the first person with a physical disability to be ...

The billionaire and presidential buddy is focused on Mars but ignores the many reasons why ditching the ISS too soon is a ...