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 ...

A woman from North Texas is fulfilling a lifelong dream. She was just picked as an astronaut candidate for NASA.

But with that milestone apparently came another: the first astronaut class in 40 years without any Black candidates. The most recent class to not include any Black men or women was group 11 in 1985, ...

NASA’s next class of 10 astronaut candidates includes more women than men for the first time in the space agency’s more than ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- NASA introduced its newest class of astronauts, and two of them are from Kentuckiana. Erin Overcash, 34, is from Goshen, Kentucky, and Yuri Kubo, 40, is from Columbus, ...

A woman from Sammamish joined the prestigious ranks of NASA astronaut candidates Monday. Lauren Edgar, 40, of Sammamish was one of 10 candidates named to this year’s class out of more than 8,000 ...

NASA has 10 new astronauts chosen from more than 8,000 applicants. Six of them are women, the first time in NASA history that an incoming astronaut class is mostly female.

Lauren Edgar, 40, is an experienced geologist who considers Sammamish her home and went to Skyline High School. She's one of 10 candidates picked for the 2025 class.

The new selection of NASA astronauts will spend two years in training before becoming eligible for flight assignments.

UCLA and UC San Diego grad Megan McArthur retires at 54 after two decades with NASA. The space and ocean scientist's work puts her in an elite group of explorers.

ENFIELD, Conn. -- Lego has unveiled a set of figures celebrating the women of NASA. The 231-piece set features Sally Ride, the first American female astronaut, and Mae Jemison, the first black woman ...

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.