Billionaires say the next jobs could be on the Moon. NASA’s newest astronauts may get there first—on a salary on par with a ...

“Naturally you needed a man with the courage to ride on top of a rocket, and you were grateful that such men existed,” Tom Wolfe wrote in The Right Stuff, his exposé of the astronauts behind Project ...

Ochoa and 100 others of her ilk in the nonpartisan Astronauts of America are helping preserve democracy in a variety of ways, ...

At 4:27 a.m. on October 30, 2024, the Shenzhou-19 spaceship, atop a Long March-2F carrier rocket, soared into space from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, in northwest China's Gansu Province. The ...

Why can't a flight jacket be pink or purple? That was the question a 6-year-old girl asked her mother, Kellie Gerardi, an astronaut, researcher and science communicator. When Gerardi later appeared in ...

For the first time in more than a year, two astronauts will conduct an all-female spacewalk outside the International Space Station. Meir and Adenot will be part of the first spacewalk with just women ...

The EVA will be the sixth-ever with just women, and the first since May 2025. The spacewalk is part of a series of upgrades to the aging orbital outpost. NASA will provide live coverage of the event ...

NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir will both be in space as Koch becomes first woman to fly near moon. Koch will be the first woman to fly around the moon on the Artemis II mission. Meir ...

NASA is facing criticism for selecting an all-male crew for its upcoming Artemis III moon mission. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman defended the selection, citing the astronauts' qualifications and ...