The class will undergo nearly two years of training before being eligible for space flight assignments to the International Space Station, Moon and to Mars.

The U.S. and China are in a sprint toward manned missions to the lunar surface by the end of this decade, with sights on 2029 as a common deadline.

Blue Origin, the space company founded by Jeff Bezos, will join NASA's lunar lander program -competing against Elon Musk's SpaceX to develop spacecraft intended to ferry astronauts to the moon's surface. NASA announced Friday that Blue Origin will work to ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida -- A return to the moon is in sight as Vice President Mike Pence revealed on Wednesday the astronauts who will be launching in a few years. A group of 18 astronauts were introduced as part of the Artemis program, roughly more than a ...

Shares of BWX Technologies hit a record high, as investors believe the nuclear-power company could be involved in NASA’s lunar plans.

President Donald Trump and his new interim head of NASA Sean Duffy are pushing for a renewed effort to shuffle off the responsibility of running the International Space Station in favor of becoming a customer of a commercial space station provider instead.

After evaluating more than 8,000 applications, NASA announced that it will unveil its 2025 class of astronaut candidates for the Artemis II moon mission during a ceremony on Monday.