Her determination eventually led her to join NASA and take a leading role in building the International Space Station through ...

Space travel should by rights make for rocket-fuelled television, but documentaries on the subject too often veer into ...

Historian Valerie Neal reveals how women astronauts transformed NASA and redefined what it means to explore space.

NASA's 2025 astronaut class doesn't seem to include any Black recruits, a first in 40 years at the space agency. Officials would not discuss it.

US astronaut, doctor and engineer Mae Jemison became the first Black woman to go into space in 1992. She was one of seven ...

The former NASA astronaut and the agency’s 14th administrator says it’s not a matter of if we go to the Red Planet — but when ...

Lisa Nowak, a decorated U.S. Navy officer and NASA astronaut who flew on the STS-121 shuttle mission in July 2006, shocked ...

On October 29, 2005, three bomb blasts on two crowded markets and a bus in New Delhi killed nearly 60 people and left 200 ...

Col. Eileen Collins was the first woman to pilot and command a NASA space shuttle. Collins commanded the first flight after the 2003 Columbia tragedy, which also experienced a foam-shedding issue.

MIT astronauts aboard the International Space Station—and the MIT researchers who have sent up experiments—have advanced our ...

NASA has furloughed more than 15,000 employees, 83% of its federal workforce, as a result of the government shutdown. A plan sent to the Office of Management and Budget details NASA’s shutdown ...

More than 15,000 NASA civil servants have been furloughed as the U.S. federal government enters a shutdown. The grinding halt forces NASA and other agencies to scale back nearly all of their ...