It’s been more than six decades since Alan Shepard launched on his famous suborbital flight. What would think of the U.S.

President Donald Trump on Monday celebrated National Astronaut Day on the 64th anniversary of Alan Shepard becoming the first ...

As they returned to the airlock, the Earth below started to put on a lightning show, and Ayers took note, mesmerized. A day ...

The first spacewalk was conducted in 1965, by Russian cosmonaut Alexey Leonov. Nearly 20 years later, cosmonaut Svetlana ...

NASA Space Shuttle Pilot Duane “Digger” Carey stopped by St. Paul’s Farnsworth Aerospace School to share his own inspiring ...

The recent all-women spaceflight carried out on Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin vehicle has raised discussion of who gets to be ...

She was an astronaut, an International Space Station alum, and an aquanaut before she turned 40. It all happened because she ...

Samantha McClelland, a senior at Forest Hills Northern High School, won the Roger B. Chaffee Scholarship after writing about ...

Don Pettit, NASA's oldest active astronaut, addressed his eventful return to Earth. Shortly after the spacecraft touched down ...

Is it easier to fall asleep in low gravity?” and other spaceflight questions, answered by two NASA sleep scientists.

Wilmore, who recently spent more than nine months in space, was a 1981 Mt. Juliet High School graduate with family still in ...

An astronaut who missed out on the first all-female spacewalk because of a spacesuit sizing issue got her chance six years ...