Among the trailblazing women, those who had long aspired to spaceflight learned to fly airplanes in hopes of improving their ...

The choice of the Boeing 747 as the primary aircraft to ferry the Space Shuttle orbiter was a decision rooted in the jumbo ...

MIT astronauts aboard the International Space Station—and the MIT researchers who have sent up experiments—have advanced our ...

In the vast silence of space, where every second counts and precision isn't just a luxury—it's survival—astronauts have long ...

Solein, made by Finnish company Solar Foods, is the protein-rich powder at the center of the pilot. It is created via a ...

Humans have been in space onboard the ISS continuously for 25 years. As the station nears its end, new commercial habitats ...

Historian Valerie Neal reveals how women astronauts transformed NASA and redefined what it means to explore space.

I got a quick lesson in confidence a few weeks ago, while covering an event at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. Thanks to ...

Her determination eventually led her to join NASA and take a leading role in building the International Space Station through ...

Design transforms heat into electrical energy via thermionic electron emission.

We are effectively in a Space Race 2.0.” That is how Brendan Carr, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), ...

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 ...