NASA on Monday introduced the 10 people who will join the agency’s astronaut corps as it races to return humans to the moon.

NASA’s 10 new astronaut candidates are already making history. The 2025 class includes the first person to join the astronaut corps who has previously flown to orbit. It’s also the first class in history to include more women than men. To top things off, one of them could be the first to set foot on the Red Planet.

In NASA's current missions, medical risks are manageable. There's the opportunity for emergency evacuations, real-time communications, and the ability to send samples to Earth. However, long-term future missions, such as going to Mars, will take away that ...

Blue Origin is proposing a version of its Blue Ring spacecraft to serve as a Mars communications satellite. Credit: Blue Origin WASHINGTON — NASA is still working on a strategy to procure a Mars communications spacecraft funded in the budget ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance has uncovered rocks in a dry river channel that may hold potential signs of ancient microscopic life, scientists reported Wednesday. They stressed that in-depth analysis is needed of the ...

Martian mudstones contain features that NASA says are the "clearest sign of life" yet on Mars, according to new findings from NASA’s Perseverance rover released Sept. 10. Specifically, the stones show signs of possible ancient microbial life, according ...

NASA’s other rover, Perseverance, landed in the Jezero Crater on February 18, 2021, to search for signs of ancient life and collect rock samples for a future return to Earth.

NASA's Mars rover Perseverance has uncovered rocks in a dry river channel that may hold potential signs of ancient microscopic life, scientists reported Wednesday. They stressed that in-depth analysis is needed of the sample gathered there by Perseverance ...

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. For the first time, there were more women than men in an incoming astronaut class.