Her 328-day ISS stint, six spacewalks, and engineering career all lead up to NASA’s historic next.

Four trailblazing figures from NASA's history are set to launch as new Lego minifigures on Nov. 1. NASA astronauts Sally Ride and Mae Jemison, astronomer Nancy Grace Roman and computer scientist ...

In a giant leap for womankind, NASA announced plans to send the first woman to land on the Moon in 2024. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has outlined plans to make its first return ...

NASA has selected its next round of astronaut candidates, or ASCANs, from a pool of 8,000 candidates. The final selection of six women and four men will endure two years of notoriously intense ...

WASHINGTON -- NASA is renaming a facility after Black woman engineer portrayed in the movie "Hidden Figures". NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced Wednesday the agency's headquarters building ...

Little Elm native Rebecca Lawler has been selected as an astronaut candidate for NASA. The former Navy and test pilot was chosen from a pool of over 8,000 applicants after applying three times. She ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The first six women in newly issued, incompletely adorned astronaut jumpsuits, 1978: (front, left to right) Sally Ride, Rhea ...

On the 100th anniversary of women getting the vote in the U.S., the space program promised to include women at the forefront of future missions, and they did it in the Bay Area. Astronauts, business ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA introduced its newest astronauts Monday, 10 scientists, engineers and test pilots chosen from more than 8,000 applicants to help explore the moon and possibly Mars.