Astronaut

One of the world's most active volcanoes lights up the night in a spectacular new astronaut photo.

In order to be an astronaut you need a strong stomach, one that won't make you puke if you see a turd floating by or when you need to poop into a bag taped to your rear end.

President Donald Trump signed into law two bills that aim to encourage women to pursue careers in science and technology.

An astronaut spotted this checkerboard from space.

John Glenn, one of NASA's first seven astronauts and the first American to orbit the Earth, has died. He was 95.

NASA needs you to rise to the Space Poop Challenge and help its astronauts go where no astronaut has gone before.

Doctors to astronauts: We've got your back.

While engineers are still struggling with seemingly impossible physics for warp drives and transporters, NASA is using some technology in space that would be at home on the starship Enterprise.

Astronauts who fly far beyond the Earth are more likely to experience heart problems than those whose missions are closer to home — and the cause may be deep-space radiation, a new study finds.