NASA astronaut Don Pettit is set to return to Earth on his 70th birthday, April 19th, after a 220-day mission aboard the International Space Station. This marks his fourth spaceflight, bringing ...

WASHINGTON, April 17, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Students from Woodland Park, Colorado, will connect with NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers as she answers prerecorded science, technology, engineering ...

There is no single definition of "astronaut," leading to debate over who qualifies for the title. Reaching the Kármán line (62 miles above sea level) is a common benchmark, but NASA and the Air ...

After Katy Perry, Lauren Sanchez and four other women blasted into space yesterday, Blue Origin proudly declared that they had officially become astronauts. 'We just completed our 11th human ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — NASA astronaut Jonny Kim is currently in Star City, Russia, preparing for his Tuesday, April 8, launch to the International Space Station, his first spaceflight. Kim will ...

King responded to the backlash in comments to Entertainment Tonight on Tuesday, where she compared the Blue Origin flight to the historic space flight taken by American astronaut Alan Shepard in 1961.

The women — alongside NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, astronaut and bioastronautics research scientist Amanda Nguyen and filmmaker Kerianne Flynn — are blasting off in a Blue Origin rocket ...

Astronaut Nichole Ayers letting her hair loose in gravity. (ISS/NASA / SWNS) By Dean Murray One astronaut has been having a hair-raising time since arriving on the International Space Station ...

The women are part of Blue Origin's first all-female space flight, and they're taking off in suits custom-made by Monse Michael Nied has been a digital news editor with PEOPLE since 2025. He has ...