NASA just picked its newest astronauts—only 0.1% made the cut, with salaries topping $150K and a shot at landing on Mars Forget Ivy League admissions— NASA’s astronaut program has set a sky-high bar for admission standards, and 2025 was no exception.

For the first time, NASA’s astronaut candidate class includes someone who has already been to orbit, and is majority women, as the space agency focuses on its goals to send humans back to the Moon and onto Mars.

A military pilot who calls San Diego home may get the chance to serve her country on a new mission to the moon, or possibly Mars.

U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer 3 Joseph “Ben” Bailey was officially announced as a member of NASA’s newest astronaut candidate class

SpaceX launched NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission at 7:30 a.m. on Wednesday from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida.

NASA's Artemis 2 crew will discuss their upcoming moon mission today and you can watch the events live. The action actually started on Monday (Sept. 22), when the agency unveiled its 2025 astronaut class.