NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have returned to Earth after a surprise nine months in space. The two astronauts were left stranded on the International Space Station after ...

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, the two NASA astronauts whose one-week stay on the International Space Station grew into a nine-month mission, are coming home. The duo are expected to splash down ...

NASA astronauts Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore and Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov departed the International Space Station early Tuesday at 1:05 a.m. ET.

NASA astronauts Nichole Ayers and Anne McClain arrived March 16 at the station with JAXA astronaut Takuya Onishi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov as part of the Crew-10 mission.

NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore is helped out of a SpaceX capsule onboard the SpaceX recovery ship Megan after landing in the water off the coast of Tallahassee, Fla., Tuesday, March 18, 2025.

Assuming Artemis II goes well, NASA plans to send another four astronauts to the moon in the 2025-26 timeframe — Artemis III — including the next man and the first woman to walk on the moon.

NASA's newest generation of astronauts have moon missions and a growing space program in their future. The 2024 class tells Space.com they're excited for what's next.

Editor's note:Click here to watch the Starliner astronauts return to Earth. The NASA astronauts who crewed the Boeing Starliner could be on their way home a little sooner than expected.

During its last round of hiring in 2015, NASA said it received 18,300 applicants. From that pool, NASA picked 11 new astronauts who recently completed more than two years of training.

For that reason, NASA selected the Dragon to bring home Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, the two NASA astronauts who rode the Boeing Starliner capsule to the space station in June 2024 for the ...