The two astronauts have a busy day ahead of them. Hague and Williams will "patch light leaks in the NICER X-ray telescope, then ready the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer for future upgrades," NASA officials wrote in a Jan. 15 blog post.

Two spacewalks scheduled for this January will see astronauts updating station hardware and searching for microorganisms on the ISS, with each walk lasting over six hours. Two NASA astronauts are set

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- One of NASA’s two stuck astronauts got a much welcomed change of scenery Thursday, stepping out on her first spacewalk since arriving at the International Space Station more than seven months ago.

The survival of organisms in the vacuum of space could support the theory that life didn't start on Earth, but originated elsewhere in the galaxy.

They will swab the exterior of the International Space Station to collect microbiological samples surviving in the vacuum of space. The post How NASA astronauts are searching for life in space appeared first on Talker.

Around the turn of the century, 3.8 million people banded together in a real-time search for aliens — with screensavers. It was a big moment in a century-long concerted search for extraterrestrial intelligence.