In 1978, Ride and five other women became the first group of female astronauts in the U.S. A new book by a longtime curator of spaceflight artifacts explores the nearly five-decade history of women in ...

Discover why Ecuador's Mount Chimborazo is the closest point to space, despite Mount Everest's greater height above sea level ...

On Episode 184 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik look at why space can be scary with a survey of some of the best (and some of the most laughable) movies about critters from outer space!

Humans have been in space onboard the ISS continuously for 25 years. As the station nears its end, new commercial habitats are lining up to take its place ...

During their orbital stay, the Shenzhou XXI astronauts will carry out various tasks, including conducting scientific experiments and applications; going on spacewalks to install space debris shield ...

The pristine white exterior creates a striking visual against the blue Delaware sky, particularly when sunlight plays across its curved surface. A set of retractable stairs descends from the bottom, ...

China’s Shenzhou-21 space rocket and its crew including the youngest member of its astronaut corps blasted off on Friday atop a Long March-2F rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in ...

On Wednesday, the space companies owned by two of the richest people on Earth — Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin — submitted ideas to the space agency for a faster program to land ...

Tony Dokoupil brought up the astronaut during a discussion of Kim Kardashian's claim that the moon landing was fake.

China has sent a new crew to its Tiangong space station, including its youngest ever taikonaut, along with the first live ...