NASA’s Artemis II mission, due to lift off on April 1, will see Christina Koch become the first woman ever to travel beyond ...

It has taken more than 50 years of spaceflight to send a woman to the Moon, but the health effects of deep space may exact a ...

Researchers from the European Space Agency (ESA) found women use less oxygen, produce less carbon dioxide and require less food than their male counterparts. The team simulated a 1080-day mission with ...

Christina Koch will be the first woman to fly around the moon in the Artemis II launch.

The science reporter reveals the astonishing truth behind the stories in her new book, The Six, which follows the first women inducted into Nasa’s astronaut programme in 1978 Your parents both worked ...

(SOUNDBITE) (English) NASA ASTRONAUT ENGINEER CHRISTINA KOCH SAYING: “Within the first two minutes of being back on earth, I saw more people’s faces than I had seen in a year so that was really ...

Two NASA astronauts are performing an all-female spacewalk today – but somewhat unsurprisingly Katy Perry is not one of them. Nichole Ayers and Anne McClain ventured out of the International Space ...

Future space missions might use all-female crews because they are more “efficient”, a new study has suggested. Many space agencies around the world are already preparing for the first human trips to ...

From sexist objections to the challenges faced by female crew on Earth and in space, this is a vital record of a giant leap for women In 1973, four years after Neil Armstrong’s space boot hit moon ...

NASA astronaut friends Christina Koch and Jessica Meir, who performed the first all-female spacewalk, are breaking records again.

From washing their hair and teeth, to wearing tampons and applying the odd bit of makeup - female astronauts can face ...