Three weeks into delicate fuelling operations, Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle has also been successfully loaded with oxygen. In orbit this will be transferred to the International Space Station's atmosphere for the crew to breathe.

A pair of spacewalking astronauts have floated outside the International Space Station for the first of a two-part outing to complete installation of the newly arrived Harmony connecting module.

Two astronauts went out on a spacewalk at the international space station on Friday, picking up where the shuttle Discovery crew left off just days ago.

Russia will build three additional modules for its segment of the International Space Station (ISS) by 2011, the head of Russia's space agency, Roskosmos, announced on Friday.

Whose law will apply when Europe’s Columbus space laboratory joins the US-led International Space Station in December? And what happens if astronauts from different countries get into a fight?

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have successfully repaired and deployed a torn solar panel that captures sunlight to generate electricity.

NASA says it will extend the space shuttle Discovery's mission by one day to allow for a closer inspection of a flawed rotary joint that turns the solar arrays aboard the International Space Station (ISS).

U.S. astronauts will make the first of five spacewalks from the International Space Station on Friday, to attach a node to the station brought by the Discovery shuttle, NASA said.

Preparations of the European Columbus laboratory took an important step earlier this week with the final closure of the module’s hatch ahead of the December launch to the International Space Station.

China would like to become part of an international space station project, already including Russia and the United States. China takes great pride in its burgeoning space program and sees it as a way to validate its claims to be one of the world's leading scientific nations.

South Korea has announced that a 30-year-old robotics expert would be the country's first person in space when he flies on a Russian Soyuz capsule to the International Space Station next year.

U.S. astronauts from the space shuttle Endeavour have installed a new storage platform on the space station.