At one point it was a real possibility that Peggy Whitson would be in space when she was inducted. Rather, she was in ...

The nights surrounding June 7 will see Jupiter and Mercury crowd together close to the horizon in the northwestern sky.

Have you ever wondered how long it would take to travel to each planet in our solar system? With vast distances separating ...

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

I shaan Patel, a rising University of Virginia fourth-year student, has joined the orbit of Astronaut Scholars.

Working in condensed matter physics, University of Virginia Astronaut Scholar Ishaan Patel sees a future in research.

Keith Barr was born only months before the historic Apollo 11 landing in 1969. While he was too young to witness that giant ...

Veteran NASA astronauts Bernard Harris and Peggy Whitson were inducted today into the prestigious U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame.

The capsule, developed with the help of government contracts, is an important part of keeping the space station running.

The Ax-4 mission by Axiom Space, launching on June 10, brings India’s Shubhanshu Shukla and three international astronauts ...

Mercury starts to panic after Venus calls him “tiny”… is he really just a big asteroid? Jupiter steps in with some cosmic ...