In 1978, Ride and five other women became the first group of female astronauts in the U.S. A new book by a longtime curator of spaceflight artifacts explores the nearly five-decade history of women in ...

A group of private astronauts are journeying home through outer space after spending a little more than two weeks at the International Space Station. The four-person crew of a venture known as Axiom ...

While astronauts do not leave home to go to war or face combat, families of space travelers may share a few commonalities ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida -- As more companies start selling tickets to space, a question looms: Who gets to call themselves an astronaut? It's already a complicated issue and about to get more so as ...

PATERSON − A good educator knows how to bring a science lesson to life. But Dr. Carlos Miranda, the planetarium manager at Paterson P-Tech High School, brought that to a whole new level when he ...

Watching the first few episodes of Syfy’s wonderfully demented, decidedly low-tech sci-fi comedy Outer Space Astronauts – premiering Tuesday at 9:30 p.m. – I had flashbacks of both Mystery Science ...

No one can say with scientific confidence why we exist or what happens when we die. In fact, scientists have a tenuous grasp ...

Recently discovered recordings of the Apollo 10 mission reveal the astronauts in 1969 were hearing mysterious music, declassified transcripts reveal. When the spacecraft was around the dark side of ...

Deep inside a Swiss mountain, a group of students spent some of the summer simulating what life might be like inside a lunar ...

Italian astronaut details what it was like to almost drown in outer space. Aug. 21, 2013 — -- "I can hardly hear them, and they can't hear me. I'm alone. I frantically think of a plan," says Luca ...