The Tianwen-2 probe is being prepped for launch at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province. The probe will "collect samples from the near-Earth asteroid 2016 HO3 and ...

NASA introduces its 2025 astronaut class ready for lunar and Martian missions. Two women with North Texas ties made the cut.

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 ...

In September 2025, NASA declared that it was in the midst of a "Golden Age of innovation and exploration," and that a huge ...

NASA OFFICIALLY SELECTED ITS NEXT BATCH OF ASTRONAUT CANDIDATES FOR THIS YEAR’S CLASS, INCLUDING TWO WITH LOCAL TIES. THE TEN AMERICAN MEN AND WOMEN WERE INTRODUCED TO THE PUBLIC TODAY DURING A ...

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.

Although NASA will use its Space Launch System (SLS) to slingshot astronauts around the Moon in 2026, the plan for several ...

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

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

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