CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION — NASA and Blue Origin are planning to launch the ESCAPADE mission, where a pair of satellites will study Mars' magnetosphere. ESCAPADE will eventually help future ...

American astronomer-turned-medical physicist and now NASA astronaut Chris Williams joined two Russian cosmonauts aboard a Soyuz ferry ship Thursday for a Thanksgiving Day flight to the International ...

The Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft successfully launched this morning from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, with NASA astronaut Chris Williams and cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev ...

The rocket departs from Kazakhstan and will reach the ISS in about three hours. A trio of astronauts and cosmonauts will celebrate Thanksgiving by heading to the International Space Station. NASA ...

The three-person crew will spend about eight months aboard the orbital laboratory conducting scientific research. This mission comes as the ISS marks 25 years of continuous human presence in orbit.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A Purdue graduate is now NASA’s top astronaut. According to officials at NASA, otherwise known as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scott Tingle was recently ...

The estranged wife of a NASA astronaut pleaded guilty to lying to law enforcement over what was alleged to be the first crime to be committed in space. Summer Worden now faces up to five years in ...

A former Air Force intelligence officer has pleaded guilty to lying to law enforcement when she claimed her then-estranged astronaut wife committed the first crime in space, according to authorities.

NASA picked 10 new astronaut candidates in Houston on September 22, 2025, a small class chosen from more than 8,000 applicants at a public ceremony. They now start nearly two years of training, a ...

As NASA prepared astronauts for its second mission into space, National Geographic had exclusive behind-the-scenes access for the intense and out-of-this-world training these pioneers underwent.