Eileen Collins was the first woman to pilot a space craft. A new documentary charts her path to the stars. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Collins and film director Hannah Berryman.

The brothers claimed to have captured secret audio of cosmonauts, including a horrific death.

Some explorers have focused on alpine heights. Others on polar extremes. Megan McArthur is one of the elite few who can say she's piloted both submarines and spacecraft, exploring expanses from the ...

TITUSVILLE, Fla. – March is Women’s History Month, but when it comes to space history, the numbers tell a stark story. More than 500 fewer women have traveled to space compared with men. At the ...

Dr. Shimrit Tirosh Maman, 45, is the first woman to be appointed chairperson of the Israel Space Agency (ISA) at the Ministry ...

These women broke boundaries and reached for the stars. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking space news, the latest updates ...

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 ...