Former astronaut and professor Terry Hart is opening up 40 years later about the friends and colleagues he lost on board the ...

As we prepare for missions beyond Earth orbit, one crucial challenge remains: keeping astronauts healthy in microgravity.

On the season finale of "The Big Bang Theory" that aired Thursday evening (May 10), a main character on the CBS TV sitcom launched into space. Sitting beside him in the spacecraft was Mike Massimino, ...

Columbia professor and former NASA astronaut Mike Massimino has faced many challenges in his career, especially during his two stints in space, which went on to partially inspire the character played ...

We all know that androids probably dream of electric sheep, but real-life astronauts are probably dreaming of quieter pastures. “The ISS is really noisy,” Dr. Kris Lehnhardt tells Inverse. Lehnhardt ...

As NASA prepared astronauts for its second mission into space, National Geographic had exclusive behind-the-scenes access for the intense and out-of-this-world training these pioneers underwent.

The members of Crew-11 — two American, one Russian and one Japanese — splashed down after one became ill, prompting an early return.