Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers achieved most of their planned tasks on today's (May 1) 5-hour, 44-minute extravehicular activity.

NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers will perform the fifth all-female spacewalk to prepare the space station for another new set of solar panels and move an antenna on the 260-mile-high ...

Earlier this year, Suni Williams made additional history for women astronauts when she set a record Jan. 30 during her ninth-ever spacewalk. Two NASA astronauts have ventured outside the ...

Yet, since then, women have comprised only about 11 percent of all astronauts. This relatively small proportion creates a significant gap in our understanding of how spaceflight affects different ...

Six women boarded Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket, marking the first all-female flight since 1963. That flight saw cosmonaut ...

Jeff Bezos space company Blue Origin will send its next group of passengers on a brief trip high above Earth to witness a ...

In its latest move, the space agency has reportedly deleted two graphic novels about fictional female astronauts from its website. Keith Cowing of NASA Watch reported the graphic novels had been ...

NASA has deleted two comic books about women astronauts from all its websites, NASA Watch reports, in what appears to be the latest victim of the Trump's administration's purge of "DEI" content ...

Female astronauts use birth control to suppress menstruation during space missions for convenience and health management Continuous oral contraceptive use is a common practice among astronauts to ...

Earlier this year, Suni Williams made additional history for women astronauts when she set a record Jan. 30 during her ninth-ever spacewalk. Two NASA astronauts have ventured outside the ...