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

Erin Overcash, from Goshen, Kentucky, was selected for NASA's new astronaut class on Monday, Sept. 22. Find out more about her.

NASA will announce its new astronaut class next month, and you'll be able to watch the unveiling live. The 2025 class of NASA ...

Before they head to the moon in 2026, the four Artemis 2 astronauts have to practice observing Earth's nearest neighbor.

NASA's newest astronauts are part of the 24th astronaut class for NASA since the original Mercury Seven made their debut in 1959.

The president's budget request called for about a 20 percent cut, overall, to NASA's budget, at a top-line level of $18.81 billion. By contrast, the House budget proposes to keep funding levels nearly ...

In 1978 Nasa announced 35 new astronauts for a new era of spaceflight – and six of them were women. Here's how the Space ...

Seventeen days after NISAR’s launch from southeastern India, an essential piece of science hardware has unfurled in orbit. Spanning 39 feet (12 meters), the drum-shaped antenna reflector on the NISAR ...

NASA’s Artemis program, the linchpin of America’s efforts to return astronauts to the moon, aims to conduct regular missions ...

The full moon isn't the only thrilling object in the sky this month. The planet Saturn will be at its biggest and brightest on this date.

The moon looks bigger in the night sky because it is in perigee, or the point where the moon reaches its closest point to Earth along its orbit, according to NASA. Though full moons that reach perigee ...