Dee Smith of Ashley Community Schools recently participated in NASA’s Liftoff program.

HOUSTON – The "8 Balls" have landed in NASA's center pocket. On Tuesday, Aug. 20, eight new astronaut candidates — nicknamed the "Eight Balls" — were formally welcomed to NASA's Johnson Space Center ...

Off the San Diego coast, a team from NASA and the U.S. Navy are conducting critical astronaut recovery drills in preparation for the space agency's first attempt in 50 years to transport humans to the ...

When NASA astronauts next visit the moon, it'll be a dark and shadowy expedition. The space agency's renewed moon ambitions, a mission called Artemis, aim to bring astronauts back to our well-cratered ...

NASA researchers are returning to a remote Alaskan volcanic valley originally used to train the Apollo astronauts in the 1960s. These expeditions aim to decipher the complex geological features on ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Being an Astronaut is no walk in the park, there is numerous different tests you must pass before you strap on a space suit and get blasted off to a nearby ...

Training is about to get underway for the first lunar-bound crewed mission in 50 years. NASA astronauts Christina Koch, Victor Glover, and Reid Wiseman, together with Canadian Space Agency astronaut ...

WASHINGTON — A NASA effort to kick-start a U.S. commercial spaceflight industry using minimally restrictive funding awards called Space Act Agreements received a generally positive review in a recent ...

Like her ancestors before her, Emirati astronaut Nora AlMatrooshi has spent much of her life gazing up at the stars and dreaming of flying to the moon. This week, she became the first Arab woman to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Roscosmos segment of the International Space Station is pictured this year as the orbital outpost soared 261 miles above the ...