On May 15, 1963, NASA astronaut Gordon Cooper launched on the sixth and final crewed flight of the Mercury Program. This was ...

NASA space shuttle astronauts Tom Akers and Joe Tanner, who flew into orbit four times each, will be inducted into the U.S.

Butch Wilmore, a former NASA astronaut, has spent his career pushing the limits of human spaceflight, logging hundreds of ...

NASA just revealed some new details about its upcoming Artemis 3 astronaut mission to Earth orbit, which is targeted to ...

An astronaut aboard the Gemini 7 space mission more than 60 years ago reported seeing a “bogey” unidentified object that ...

Beyond Artemis II, human spaceflight missions will need longer expiration dates and grow-it-yourself options. Luckily, labs around the world are working on these menus—and invited National Geographic ...

Christina Koch reunites with her dog in emotional video after returning from Artemis II, NASA's historic 10-day moon mission ...

Recently, Artemis II took a trip to the moon and back. The astronauts involved – Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Jeremy Hansen, and Christina Koch – were the first to reach the satellite in over 50 years ...

The NASA astronaut is part of the first manned moon mission in over five decades Catherine Santino is a Style Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She began contributing to PEOPLE in 2022 and joined the staff ...

It turns out that living in space can have a lasting impact on how your brain works, researchers have found. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

DALLAS — It is an ambitious journey, the kind that dares folks on Earth to look up and dream: astronauts are about to travel farther from Earth and closer to the Moon than any human in more than five ...