The mementoes — a set of more than 50 pieces called the Sally Ride Estate Collection — sold for a total of $145,666, ...

To simulate menstrual fluid, the team used glycerol, a thick liquid similar in consistency to blood. In both pre-flight and ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Cristina Costantini, director of the new documentary, "Sally," about the life of astronaut ...

NASA astronaut Suni Williams set female spacewalk record Earlier this year, Suni Williams made additional history for women astronauts when she set a record Jan. 30 during her ninth-ever spacewalk.

For the first time since Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova's solo flight in 1963, a spacecraft will enter orbit with only women aboard. Blue Origin's all-female space flight crew, which ...

Melinda French Gates and Billie Jean King say sports are the strongest predictor of female leadership. The stats agree.

The two-week mission, chartered by Houston-based Axiom Space, is the fourth privately financed flight to the International ...

Jahnavi Dangeti, from Andhra Pradesh’s West Godavari district, has been selected as an astronaut candidate for a US-based ...

Sally Ride was the first American woman in space, and when she died in 2012, her obituary publicly revealed that she was gay. KCRW hears from her partner Tam O’Shaughnessy, plus the director of the ...

NASA retiree turned private astronaut Peggy Whitson was launched on the fifth flight to orbit of her career early on ...

Iowa astronaut Peggy Whitson is back in space, this time as the leader of the Axiom Mission 4 to the International Space ...

Taylor Jenkins Reid's "Atmosphere" tells the story of Joan, an astronomer who becomes an astronaut, and Vanessa, an ...