Ohio astronaut Charles Bassett was set for space before a tragic crash ended his life at 34. His legacy lives on.

A retired astronaut with five spacewalks under his belt is helping local teens dream up experiments bound for the ...

Local students got the chance to learn from an astronaut today as part of a two-day program to "Go for Launch!" ...

WTTW spoke to retired astronaut Daniel Tani, who grew up in Lombard, Illinois, and is featured in the new four-part PBS ...

For the fourth time, he had diligently applied to become an astronaut at the US space agency, seeking to fulfill a lifelong ...

Lai Ka-ying, Hong Kong's first astronaut in orbit, highlighted women's empowerment in her congratulatory message sent from China's space station Tiangong to the AI Women's Forum at the 2026 World ...

A look back at the career of Shannon Lucid, who flew to space five times and is one of few Americans who flew on the Russian ...

NASA astronaut Anil Menon is set to launch with a pair of cosmonauts on a Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station ...

The new crew will replace three other Soyuz fliers wrapping up a 240-day stay aboard the International Space Station.

For the first time since four Artemis II astronauts flew around the moon in April, an American is about to head to space.

Wally Funk, who has died aged 87, became the oldest woman and, briefly, before she was beaten by the Star Trek actor William Shatner, the oldest person to blast into space, when she was invited as an ...

NASA's Anil Menon will be the first American to reach space in more than 3 months since the Artemis II moon mission in April.