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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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.