In 2003, during his maiden spaceflight, China’s first astronaut,Yang Liwei, encountered a strange and unsettling phenomenon: ...

A bill by Colorado's Rep. Joe Neguse and Senators Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper would award Ed Dwight the ...

Rusty Schweickart, now 89, served as the Lunar Module Pilot on the 1969 Apollo 9 mission-and logged over 240 hours in space.

Schweickart, 89, was one of three astronauts who took part in NASA's Apollo 9 mission-before he returned to Earth and made a ...

A Bay Area home owned by an Apollo 9 astronaut and his wife is on the market. It's the first time the Sonoma property has ...

Famed NASA astronaut Jim Lovell, who commanded the harrowing Apollo 13 mission that was forced to abandon a lunar landing ...

NASA astronaut Zena Cardman, who launched with the Crew-11 mission from Florida, shared footage of auroras taken from the ...

One of NASA's two previously stuck astronauts has retired. NASA announced Butch Wilmore's departure from the space agency on ...

On July 3, 2025, NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers captured a stunning photo of an event originally thought to be a sprite.

Once America's most experienced astronaut, Apollo 13's Jim Lovell, who died at 97, was the first to visit the moon twice.

An astronaut's work is not restricted to when he or she is in space, according to NASA. "When astronauts are not flying on a mission or training for a mission, they support other missions," the ...

Astronaut High School's football team, the War Eagles, enters the 2025 season with a large and experienced senior class, led by their third-year coach Logan Hallock. The team's focus is on taking the ...