We talked to retired astronaut Joan Higginbotham, the third Black woman to ever go into space, about her inspiring journey.

Astronauts perform so many out-of-this-world experiments on the International Space Station (ISS). They use a specially-built ...

Astronauts on the International Space Station, which has been in orbit for decades, have collected a stunning array of images ...

The Barbie doll comes with a miniature version of Allende’s dog, Perla, who inspired her first children’s book. “The doll ...

The space suits worn during SpaceX's Polaris Dawn mission are a sci-fi reimagining of NASA's classic marshmallow suits. There ...

For five days, the crew of the Polaris Dawn mission completed a number of objectives that could one day bolster deep-space ...

SpaceX Polaris Dawn astronaut Jared Isaacman briefly "touched the void" as he embarked on the first-ever private spacewalk ...

SpaceX's Polaris Dawn crew has returned to Earth after five days in orbit, following a historic mission featuring the world's ...

The historic SpaceX astronaut mission — which conducted the first-ever private spacewalk, among other achievements —returned ...

American space agency NASA released some details on three optical navigation technologies being researched for the Artemis ...

NASA plans to send its first crewed mission to the moon. NPR's Scott Detrow meets the crew of NASA's Artemis II mission, to see how the team is preparing.

The two Starliner astronauts said Friday they had no regrets about NASA's decision to extend their mission and to bring their ...