NASA shows how space takes a toll on men and women differently. — -- With an upcoming mission to Mars, NASA is studying the ways that living in space affects both men and women. In a study ...

Lunette, a company that makes reusable menstrual cups, has sent some into space to help female astronauts on long-term missions. The Lunette Period Cups are made of hypoallergenic medical-grade ...

Two NASA astronauts have ventured outside the International Space Station to conduct a rare all-female spacewalk. When astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers emerged around 9 a.m. Thursday, May 1, ...

An astronaut who missed out on the first all-female spacewalk because of a spacesuit sizing issue got her chance six years later on Thursday. NASA’s Anne McClain emerged from the International Space ...

Find out how NASA’s astronaut selection process has evolved. Diane Tedeschi Marsha Ivins (at Florida's Kennedy Space Center in 1995) flew on five space shuttle missions, logging more than 1,300 hours ...

Two NASA astronauts will step outside the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday to take part in U.S. Spacewalk 93. It will be the first all-female spacewalk since 2023 and just the fifth in ...

Two NASA astronauts stepped outside the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday to take part in U.S. Spacewalk 93. It is the first all-female spacewalk since 2023 and just the fifth in NASA's ...

The spacewalk will now be done by one female and one male astronaut. The history-making, all-female spacewalk that was scheduled to happen on Friday, during Women’s History Month, has been canceled by ...

McClain and Ayers are both part of a SpaceX mission known as Crew-10 that reached the space station in March and paved the way for the Starliner astronauts to return home. NASA provided a livestream ...