Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore’s extended stay in the International Space Station will add to what we know about how space affects health.

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams aren’t the first to run late in space, and their 9 ½-month mission falls ...

Dr. Mae Jemison, the first woman of color in space, shares wisdom and encouragement with "CBS Mornings" co-host Gayle King ahead of King's upcoming Blue Origin launch.

As of March 14, the Starliner astronauts have been in space for 282 days, which means they missed a lot of major U.S. events.

From a spacecraft’s coolant leak to the disintegration of the Soviet Union, astronauts have gotten stuck in space for a ...

Michigan's own Captain Jerry Linenger is, among other things, a retired United States Navy Flight Surgeon and NASA astronaut.

Since those early steps, extravehicular activity has helped provide the solutions to many problems that astronauts face in ...

On Sunday, March 16, as SpaceX and NASA's Crew-10 astronauts arrived at the International Space Station ahead of Crew-9's return home, some friendly space hijinks ensued ...

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams left the International Space Station after nine months in space, checking out with two other ...

The NASA astronauts who crewed the Boeing Starliner could be on their way home sooner than expected due to weather conditions off the Florida coast.

Of that total, 102 are women. The first person in space was the Soviet Union’s Yuri Gagarin on April 12, 1961. The first American, Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard, followed on May 5, 1961.