Soccer balls are tricky to design for proper spin. NASA highlighted how it is helping with FIFA ball design—and providing entertainment for ISS astronauts.

NASA shared a video showing astronauts kicking around an official World Cup soccer ball on the space station. Here's what was going on.

Before helping decide goals on football's biggest stage, the official Fifa World Cup match ball spent time in one of the most unusual testing grounds imaginable: space. In a newly released video from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronauts on the ISS had an epic microgravity kickoff with a FIFA soccer ball, as the agency highlighted how soccer balls are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. World Cup hype has taken over pretty much all of Earth, and now space. And what they find could have profound influence on how ...

World Cup hype has taken over pretty much all of Earth, and now space. As the best male soccer players in the world compete in the lauded tournament, astronauts about 250 miles above the pitch are ...