Landing humans on Mars could teach us whether life ever existed beyond Earth, how planets change over time, and how humans can live on other worlds. By studying Mars up close, astronauts could answer ...

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 mission will transport the astronauts to the space station, where they will stay and conduct research and demonstrations “to help prepare humans for future exploration missions ...

More than 100 retired NASA astronauts have banded together to form a new nonpartisan organization dedicated to promoting U.S. constitutional principles. The group, Astronauts for America, said in an ...

Humans are creatures of Earth and, in turn, at the mercy of Earth’s gravity. When we leave the confines of our home planet and enter the microgravity environment of space, our brain and body change.

Koch reflected on the nearly 10 days the Artemis II crew spent in space while attending an event in Houston, Texas Desiree Anello is a Writer/Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

WASHINGTON, April 11 (Reuters) - At 12 years old, Naia Butler-Craig decided she wanted to be an astronaut. Each time she walked into St. Mark AME Church in Orlando, Florida, and saw the framed photo ...

Artemis II is scheduled to return to Earth shortly after 8 p.m. ET off the coast of San ⁠Diego. NASA's 10-day lunar flyby mission marked first crewed flight to moon in half century. The atmospheric re ...

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 ...

While the Artemis II astronauts have been protected from the icy vacuum of space on their journey, their bodies have nonetheless been left exposed to possibly high levels of radiation—a danger of ...

As the four Artemis II astronauts looped around the moon this week before their return trip to Earth, so did four transparent chips, each about the size of a USB thumb drive and seeded with their bone ...

NASA's AVATAR experiment is flying with the Artemis II crew to study the effects of deep space on the human body. The experiment uses small chips containing blood cells from the astronauts to create ...

NASA’s Artemis II mission is making history as the agency’s first crewed journey around the Moon in more than 50 years. The four astronauts launched on April 1, 2026, at 6:35 p.m. ET aboard the Orion ...