Brazilian nun Inah Canabarro Lucas, officially recognised as the world’s oldest person, died on Wednesday at the age of 116.

The world's oldest person, Brazilian nun Inah Canabarro Lucas, died Wednesday at the age of 116, having barely survived infancy and attributing her long life to God, her order and two longevity ...

Sister Inah Canabarro Lucas passed away on April 30, according to local media, with her title now passing on to 115-year-old ...

America's oldest serving astronaut Don Pettit has returned to Earth on his 70th birthday. The Soyuz MS-26 space capsule ...

Pettit even got to celebrate his birthday twice. Due to the time zone difference, it was still April 20 when Pettit flew back ...

"You're floating, and your body, all these little aches and pains, and everything heal up, and you feel like you're 30 years old again," the 70-year-old veteran astronaut said.

A Japanese woman recognised as the world’s oldest person, Kane Tanaka, has died at age 119, just months short of her goal of reaching 120. Fukuoka Governor Seitaro Hattori said in a statement ...

NASA's oldest active astronaut has redefined traveling "home" for your birthday, landing from the International Space Station ...

Pettit and his crewmates orbited the Earth 3,520 times and completed a ... He is not, however, the oldest person to have ever flown in orbit - John Glenn, who died in 2016, flew on a NASA mission ...

However, Pettit does not hold the record for the oldest person to have flown in space ... will undergo a period of re-acclimatization to Earth's gravity. Afterward, Pettit will be flown to ...

They spent 220 days on the (ISS), orbiting the Earth 3,520 times and it means Don has now spent a total of 590 days in space, over four missions. Amazingly, he is not the oldest person to fly in ...

Still, he is not the oldest person to fly in orbit - that record ... finally returned to Earth after spending more than nine months on board the ISS - instead of the initially planned just eight ...