But with that milestone apparently came another: the first astronaut class in 40 years without any Black candidates. The most recent class to not include any Black men or women was group 11 in 1985, ...

The new selection of NASA astronauts will spend two years in training before becoming eligible for flight assignments.

Expedition 73 crewmembers sequenced DNA and worked with virtual reality glasses this week, while also continuing to unpack ...

Instead, it was Joe Acaba, NASA’s chief astronaut, asking if she was still interested in being an astronaut. “Of course, I said, ‘Absolutely.’” Sign up for First Up: From SpaceNews' Jeff Foust, a ...

Whether they're NASA employees or international astronauts, the Expedition 73 crew members are exempt from the U.S.

NASA has 10 new astronauts chosen from more than 8,000 applicants. Six of them are women, the first time in NASA history that ...

NASA on Monday introduced the 10 people who will join the agency’s astronaut corps as it races to return humans to the moon.

In a preview of their flight, the crew of Artemis II, three Americans and a Canadian, struck a tone that veered away from the ...

NASA announced the 2025 class of astronauts, and it includes someone who already is a record-breaking astronaut.

The 10 astronaut candidates, six of them women, will begin two years of training before becoming eligible for missions to low ...

NASA astronaut Sunita Williams opens up to PEOPLE about spending 9 months in space, what she missed the most and her tentative plans to retire.

The ISS feels impossibly far at 250 miles up, but lunar missions go 240,000 miles out - over 1000x the distance. It's a ...