A holiday photo of NASA astronaut Suni Williams looking gaunt has drawn concern — as her return to Earth has been delayed a ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

In a historic achievement for women in spaceflight, SpaceX engineers Anna Menon and Sarah Gillis have become the two women to fly further from Earth than any other in history. This milestone was ...

On March 29, NASA plans to have two female astronauts — Anne McClain and Christina Hammock Koch — perform a spacewalk to replace some old batteries. Meanwhile, two women on the ground in ...

A Barbie modelled on female astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti has been released, to inspire girls to make a career in STEM. It’s been 50 years since man first stepped on the moon, but it was only ...

If you’re packing for an interplanetary space mission—one that’s very long and might involve populating a faraway world—sending an all-female astronaut crew could be an intelligent choice.

On Friday 18 October, Nasa conducted its first ever all-female spacewalk, after plans earlier this year were scrapped because of a lack of medium-sized spacesuits to fit one of the astronauts.

Their astronaut class, nicknamed the “Eight Balls,” had the highest percentage of women of any group of astronaut candidates to date. This is the 221st spacewalk in support of the space ...

The competition is tough and the standards are high. Applicants to become astronauts not only have to enjoy learning new things. They also have to be very well-organized and able to cope well with ...

The loss of the case reflected restrictive gender norms at the time; astronaut John Glenn said that “the fact women are not in this field is a fact of our social order”. “I think this gets ...

Nasa says the toilet represents an upgrade on the current facilities in the US ... Designers also gave more consideration to the comfort of female astronauts. "[A] big part of our project was ...