International Space Station

NASA returns ISS crew early for first time in history, due to 'serious medical condition'

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman told reporters that the decision was made to return the astronaut because the capability to diagnose and treat them properly is not available on the ISS.

ROSCOSMOS COSMONAUT Alexey Zubritskiy conducts a spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS), October 16, 2025.
Innovation, Science and Technology Minister Gila Gamliel shakes hands with Meredith McKay, NASA’s deputy administrator for international relations.

Jerusalem partners with NASA, looks forward to first Israeli woman in space

A SpaceX Falcon Nine rocket lifts off from Launch Complex 39A carrying NASA’s Crew-11 mission to the International Space Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, US, August 1, 2025.

SpaceX launches joint astronaut crew to ISS in NASA's Crew-11 mission

 Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech at AI Journey, Sberbank's international conference on artificial intelligence technology, in Moscow, Russia, December 11, 2024

Russia to integrate Gigachat AI model into International Space Station


The dangers of zero gravity

The information gathered by Scott Kelly during his long stay in space will shed more light on the effects of zero gravity on human health.

Nasa astronaut Karen Nyberg demonstrates how she washes her hair in zero gravity in outer space during a mission in 2013

Israelis set to explore the stars with new educational partnership

The Ramon Foundation and NanoRacks are pairing up to bring outer space closer to Israeli students.

Israeli students presenting experiments to astronauts in February at a SpaceLab event at Bar Ilan

Astronomers find seven Earth-size planets where life may be possible

"I think that we've made a crucial step towards finding if there is life out there," University of Cambridge astronomer Amaury Triaud told reporters on a conference call on Tuesday.

An artist's depiction shows the possible surface of TRAPPIST-1

SpaceX readies for new round of launches, months after satellite explosion

The ambitious plan comes only five months after a SpaceX rocket burst into flames on the launch pad at the company's original launch site in Florida.

SpaceX Falcon rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, US,

The loss of Amos-6

A setback or an opportunity?

Amos-6

Israeli satellite explodes on rocket in Cape Canaveral

People in buildings several miles from the facility wrote on social media that they felt the blast.

Explosion at Cape Canaveral

שָמַיִם שְבוּרִים

New book: Broken Sky

New book: Broken Sky

Aldrin in Israel: Mars an ‘island awaiting us in the blackness of space’

Aldrin was speaking at the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa last week as part of the SSP2016 session held there by the International Space University.

US astronaut Buzz Aldrin at Technion–Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa

To the moon and back

Israelis aim to send unmanned spacecraft to the moon.

BUZZ ALDRIN with Morris Kahn.

A little Israeli robot on the moon that could inspire others

The vision of SpaceIL is to use the contest to inspire more young Israelis to study science, technology, engineering and math.

A simulation of the SpaceIL robot about to land on the moon