On 1978, NASA selected its eighth and most diverse class of astronauts yet. The Astronaut Class of 1978, also known as the ...

Three astronauts and one female astronaut are to leave the International Space Station prematurely. The reason is a medical ...

Like many American kids who grew up between 1981 and 2011, I dreamed of becoming an astronaut and orbiting the Earth in a Space Shuttle.

NASA’s Artemis II will send astronauts around the Moon for the first time since Apollo, testing deep-space systems and ...

The research has implications for NASA’s goals to build a base on the moon and eventually conduct crewed missions to Mars.

Anna Lee Fisher decided that she wanted to be an astronaut on May 5, 1961. On that day, Alan Shepard became the first American to reach space during a 15-minute flight that took him 116 miles above ...

Explore NASA’s Curious Universe podcast featuring Artemis II astronauts. Learn about their mission preparation, crew perspectives, and the steps leading to humanity’s next journey around the Moon.

The first Vietnamese-American woman in space says she faced a “tsunami of harassment” after her historic achievement. Civil rights activist and commercial astronaut Amanda Nguyễn, 34, joined Blue ...

We're a few days away from 2026, and it's time to take stock of all the wonderful, wild, whirlwind, and downright ridiculous pop culture moments that defined the year. Now it's time to look at the ...

Sally Ride was the first American woman to go to space in 1983. And for a while, it seemed like she was the most famous person on Earth and in space. She dominated headlines. She was all over TV. And ...