INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION

Russian space firm Orbital Technologies has unveiled plans to build a hotel in space.

When in outer space, the view of the heavens is certain to be brighter than that of those on the ground. And with a stunning snapshot of a Perseid meteor bursting into Earth's atmosphere, astronaut Ron Garan proved this to be true, capturing the image through a window of the International Space Station on Sunday.

While the 2011 Perseid Meteor Shower did not disappoint onlookers during its peak on Aug. 12, an astronaut from NASA's International Space Station (ISS) one-upped us Earth dwellers when he posted photos of the shooting stars FROM space.

The International Space Station will be operational until 2020s as NASA, Roscosmos, and partners in Japan, Europe, and Canada have reached consensus regarding the matter. "The international partners have been discussing extending the mission through 2028. At this point, there's no reason we wouldn't do that, said NASA spokesperson Joshua Buck.

Danger looms at the International Space Station (ISS) as Space Junk, mainly parts of old rockets and satellites, either abandoned or destroyed in orbit, is increasingly posing threats to the internationally-developed research facility.

Russian Space Agency Roscosmos went back on its words on Thursday after an uproar over a statement by agency?s deputy head, who said on Wednesday that Russia and its partners plan to sink the International Space Station in the ocean.

The Russian Federal space agency has retracted a decision to sink the International Space Station (ISS) in the Pacific Ocean, after an international uproar over the plan.

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Now that NASA is done with its Space Shuttle Program, the $100 billion International Space Station it worked so hard to build will stay afloat in space until at least 2020, according to comments by Russia's space agency.

In an effort to keep outer space clean and junk free, Russia and its partners plan to sink the International Space Station (ISS) in the ocean after its scheduled retirement in 2020.

After the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis, NASA is bracing for its future in deep space exploration.

The U.S. delivered the last time there was a space race. This time those who want to see the country beat the Russians and other space competition may be relying on the private sector.

Atlantis space shuttle landed at 5:58 a.m. ET this morning at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, signaling the bittersweet end of NASA's decades-long shuttle program.

As the space shuttle Atlantis safely landed at 5:57 Thursday morning at Kennedy Space Center, it marked the end of one era of American space exploration.

The space shuttle Atlantis lands and officially ends the space shuttle program after 30 years.

Astronauts aboard the space-shuttle Atlantis landed just before 6am EST on Thursday, marking not only the end of the flight but end of NASA's 30-year shuttle program.

Atlantis, the last U.S. space shuttle is returning back home.

Check out amazing images of the southern lights from space.

Astronauts took amazing photos of the Aurora Australis phenomenon from space

NASA's Dawn became the first spacecraft to orbit asteroid Vesta on Saturday. It will remain in the orbit until July 2012.

Astronauts aboard space shuttle Atlantis captured an amazing view of green Aurora Australis or the Southern Lights on Thursday, while they passed west of Australia.