But the first woman in space was actually a Soviet cosmonaut who beat out 400 applicants to pilot the Vostok 6 spacecraft in ...

Unlike Apollo—which used a single spacecraft comprising a mothership and lunar lander—Artemis III will see Orion dock with ...

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NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore have returned safely to Earth after delays kept them in space for 9 months.

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Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, the astronauts who had an unexpectedly long stay in orbit, are set to head back to Earth just two days after a replacement crew docked at the space station.

SPHEREx, NASA’s latest astrophysics observatory, has launched aboard a Falcon 9 rocket alongside PUNCH, a mission studying solar wind. SPHEREx will create a 3D map of the universe, helping to uncover ...

The crew-swap mission will enable NASA’s Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to return to Earth from the International Space ...

Aboard the Crew Dragon spacecraft launching tonight are NASA astronauts Anne McClain (mission commander) Nichole Ayers (the pilot), along with mission specialists Takuya Onishi of JAXA (the Japan ...

In September, NASA astronaut Nick Hague and the Russian Space Agency’s Aleksandr Gorbunov arrived at the station on a SpaceX capsule, aptly named “Freedom,” that the two astronauts will board to ...

It was a huge one, in Chicago; it seemed as big as space itself. I enjoyed many more visits to planetariums over the years, but none could ever match the experience I had when I was four.