Soccer may be the world’s most popular sport, with billions of people across the globe both watching and playing the ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit is set to return to Earth on his 70th birthday, April 19th, after a 220-day mission aboard the International Space Station. This marks his fourth spaceflight, bringing ...

An American astronaut has reached the International Space Station with two Russians to begin an eight-month orbital mission. Jonny Kim, who was selected as a NASA astronaut in 2017, arrived early ...

Space travel presents unique physiological and psychological challenges for astronauts, including muscle weakening, bone loss, and blood redistribution. Maintaining healthy weight and gut health ...

But once we leave the planet, we experience what is known as zero gravity – technically microgravity since most astronauts are caught in a permanent state of free fall — but the result is the ...

Selected from among 2,000 applicants to NASA's astronaut training program in 1987, Jemison was part of the first group of astronauts chosen after the Challenger accident in 1987. During her eight ...

Jonny Kim, a former Navy SEAL, Harvard Medical School graduate and now a NASA astronaut, blasted off with two cosmonaut crewmates aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket early Tuesday, chased down the ...

That was a first for SpaceX, geography-wise: All 16 of its previous astronaut missions had hit the water off Florida, either in the Atlantic Ocean or in the Gulf of Mexico. Indeed, every returning ...

NASA astronaut Barry 'Butch' Wilmore recently reunited with his family as his daughter gave an update on his return MIGUEL J. RODRIGUEZ CARRILLO/AFP via Getty After nine months in outer space ...

The NASA astronaut is one of the four members of SpaceX's Crew-11 mission to the International Space Station (ISS), agency officials announced on Thursday (March 27). Cardman will command Crew-11 ...

Philips is one of four astronauts on the Fram2 mission, which is scheduled for launch Monday from Kennedy Space Center Pad 39A. The launch window opens at 9:46 p.m. EDT, but opportunities exist at ...