Butch Wilmore, a former NASA astronaut, has spent his career pushing the limits of human spaceflight, logging hundreds of ...

An astronaut aboard the ISS captured the brilliant green and pink glow.

On May 15, 1963, NASA astronaut Gordon Cooper launched on the sixth and final crewed flight of the Mercury Program. This was ...

An astronaut aboard the Gemini 7 space mission more than 60 years ago reported seeing a “bogey” unidentified object that ...

Beyond Artemis II, human spaceflight missions will need longer expiration dates and grow-it-yourself options. Luckily, labs around the world are working on these menus—and invited National Geographic ...

NASA and SpaceX have named the four astronauts for the Crew-13 mission, targeted to launch in September to the International Space Station.

Christina Koch reunites with her dog in emotional video after returning from Artemis II, NASA's historic 10-day moon mission ...

The Artemis capsule is expected to splashdown on Friday. Saturday, April 12, 1961 was the date of the first human space flight, carried out by Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet citizen. This historic event ...

The NASA astronaut is part of the first manned moon mission in over five decades Catherine Santino is a Style Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She began contributing to PEOPLE in 2022 and joined the staff ...

DALLAS — It is an ambitious journey, the kind that dares folks on Earth to look up and dream: astronauts are about to travel farther from Earth and closer to the Moon than any human in more than five ...