The U.S. Space & Rocket Center is hosting a special camp this week for visually impaired students, offering simulated space missions and adapted astronaut training.

NASA announced its 2025 Astronaut Candidate Class on September 22, 2025. The 10 candidates, pictured here at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston are: U.S. Army CW3 Ben Bailey ...

I break down a quote from Jurassic Park III discussing the difference between the astronomer vs astronaut and how it relates ...

The 38-year-old U.S. Army helicopter pilot can't remember what first got him interested in flying, but what got him ...

"We are ready for every scenario as we ride this amazing Space Launch System on the Orion spacecraft, 250,000 miles away." ...

Two Purdue University alumni, Adam Fuhrmann and Yuri Kubo, have been selected for NASA’s 2025 class of astronaut candidates.

The U.S. House Appropriations Committee on Wednesday expressed support for several NASA missions that currently sit on the chopping block as a result of the administration’s 2026 budget proposal.

Having once trained the first Black military pilots for deployment in World War II, Tuskegee University is now training another Black generation for another national challenge. Hoping to address the ...

Since 1994, UC San Diego’s Moores Cancer Center in La Jolla has helped put on a fundraising event to support cancer research. This year, it is expanding the event to two days for the first time and ...

Ed Dwight of Denver has spent a lifetime making history, memorializing history, and sometimes being swept up in it. He was the nation’s first Black astronaut candidate. He sculpted dozens of public ...

Ed Dwight was the first Black man to be selected for astronaut training more than 60 years ago. And six decades later, he became the oldest person to go to space. Dwight’s history-making didn’t stop ...

UC San Diego graduate Megan McArthur has retired from NASA’s astronaut corps after a long career in which she traveled into space twice and became the first woman to pilot the SpaceX Dragon reusable ...