DON Pettit, Nasa’s oldest active astronaut, returned to Earth on April 20, the day he turned 70 years old. That concluded his ...

"I was very disappointed, especially because it was so close to confirmation and I think we had a good plan to implement," ...

A flight will be launched on June 10 - using the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule on a Falcon 9 rocket - from NASA's Kennedy Space ...

America’s human spaceflight program may soon be hanging by a single thread, and it’s fraying under Trump’s leadership.

As the fracas between Elon Musk and President Donald Trump escalated to the point of Musk threatening to decommission ...

Even though the public often called them astronauts, payload specialists were not selected through NASA's formal astronaut ...

Professor Suresh Pillai and his team are designing palatable and safe meals for astronauts. Thirty percent of the food sent to the International Space Station is from his lab. Indian astronaut ...

Selected in 2022 from over 22 500 applicants to be one of the 11 members of the European Space Agency (ESA) 2022 astronaut class in the reserve pool, Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski, former CERN engineer, ...

Mission update from SpaceX: "We are standing down from the June 11 Ax-4 launch date to the International Space Station to allow additional time for SpaceX teams to repair the LOx leak identified ...

Peggy Whitson couldn’t make it to her induction ceremony for the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame alongside fellow inductee Bernard Harris. She’s in quarantine to go to space for a fifth ...

The consecutive failures may have decreased the likelihood SpaceX can meet NASA’s goal of landing on the moon in 2027, ...

A SpaceX spacecraft has caused a sonic boom over California as it returned to Earth's atmosphere, and some on social media initially mistook the sound for an earthquake. One even thought a bomb had ...