More than 600 people who have launched into space. Only 100 have been women. Here are those who made milestones with their treks.

Astronaut Sunita Williams has been stranded in space since June 6 due to a technical fault in the Boeing Starliner spacecraft ...

The Crew-10 mission will launch aboard the Falcon-9 rocket from Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on a 12-hour-long journey to ...

There are 10 major NASA facilities, including the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and the Johnson Space Center in Houston. October 4, 1957 - The Soviets launch Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial ...

New research published in the journal Environmental Research Letters reveals that artisan gold mining in the southern ...

November 11-15, 1966 - Serves as the commander of Gemini 12, with pilot Buzz Aldrin. December 21-27, 1968 - Along with crewmen Borman and William Anders, Lovell serves as command module pilot of ...

To help them conserve energy, mission operators at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) are shutting off one ...

The farthest spacecraft from Earth are shutting off instruments in interstellar space, but their mission in interstellar ...

NASA plans to disable instruments on its iconic Voyager probes to extend the missions of the two farthest human-made objects from Earth.

NASA’s twin Voyager probes, which launched in 1977, are the longest-running missions to send data home. But as their power ...

Engineers shut down the cosmic ray subsystem instrument on Voyager 1 on February 25. This tool, which consists of three telescopes that study cosmic rays, helped ...

NASA had to shut down even more scientific instruments on board its Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft as power reserves dwindle.