Twenty percent of NASA's 2025 astronaut candidates are Purdue University graduates, adding to the university's legacy as the ...

An astronaut from Illinois was introduced as one of 10 candidates selected by NASA for potential future space missions. Find out about the new class.

NASA has named the next 10 members of its astronaut corps, including a geologist who hails from the Pacific Northwest.

NASA on Monday introduced the 10 people who will join the agency’s astronaut corps as it races to return humans to the moon.

For the first time, there were more women than men in an incoming astronaut class. They included a Houston-based SpaceX ...

A University of Vermont alumnus has been chosen to be a member of NASA's 2025 Class of Astronaut candidates. Imelda Muller, ...

For the first time, NASA’s astronaut candidate class includes someone who has already been to orbit, and is majority women, as the space agency focuses on its goals to send humans back to the Moon and ...

NASA announced its newest class of astronauts Sept. 22 as agency leaders and lawmakers emphasized their intent to return ...

The astronaut candidates will begin two years of training before becoming eligible for missions to low-Earth orbit and beyond ...

NASA announced 10 new astronaut candidates Monday following a rigorous selection process from more than 8,000 candidates.

NASA announced the first class of astronauts in four years who could one day be eligible for missions to the moon and Mars.

The new selection of NASA astronauts will spend two years in training before becoming eligible for flight assignments.