Spacewalking astronauts had to pull out a hammer and pry bar while attaching a big, new tank full of ammonia coolant to the International Space Station on Sunday, successfully driving in a stiff ...

How to see the missing tool bag ISS astronauts dropped using binoculars A photo captured by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Satoshi Furukawa shows a tool bag floating more than 200 miles ...

Picture this: Astronauts floating in weightlessness sip cups of coffee while staring out the windows of the International Space Station. They're looking at a vaguely human-like figure as it ...

Kaguya was the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) second mission to explore the moon from orbit, launching on ...

Floating around like Peter Pan inside the International Space Station is surely a wonderful experience, but it comes at a cost, especially for astronauts who spend long periods in the microgravity ...

But the photo is very much real, and shows astronaut Bruce McCandless II floating free in space back in 1984. The photo was featured as NASA ’s Astronomy Picture of the Day this week.

Even though it’s called a spacewalk, there isn’t much walking involved — it’s more hanging and floating. Saint-Jacques, along with NASA astronaut Anne McClain, spent six 1/2 hours there.

In that time, Williams and Wilmore were exposed to the harsh conditions of space and the extreme stress of living in a floating laboratory 240 miles (386km) above the Earth's surface.