More than 8,000 people applied to become NASA astronauts in 2024, and just 10 were chosen — not simply the strongest or the fastest, but people who could master robotics, medicine, foreign languages, survival training, high-performance jets and the one s

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NASA has selected 10 new astronaut candidates from over 8,000 applicants in 2024. The selection process involved a rigorous evaluation of candidates' skills in various areas, including robotics, medicine, and foreign languages. The details of the selection process and the backgrounds of the chosen candidates are not fully clear, but it is known that the process was highly competitive.

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More than 8,000 people applied to become NASA astronauts in 2024, and just 10 were chosen — not simply the strongest or the fastest, but people who could master robotics, medicine, foreign languages, survival training, high-performance jets and the one s

Full coverage

During NASA's astronaut selection process, psychologists deliberately interrupt candidates, criticise correct answers, impose impossible time limits, and tell candidates they solved problems wrong when in fact they solved them correctly, in a specific set of inter

NASA Selects All-American 2025 Class of Astronaut Candidates

NASA astronaut applications soar

A neutron star can pack more mass than our entire Sun into a sphere only about 20 kilometres across — roughly the size of a city — and a teaspoon of its material would weigh about a billion tonnes on Earth, more than every human being alive combined.

In April 2026, four Artemis II astronauts flew 406,771 kilometres from Earth — farther than any humans in history — breaking the Apollo 13 record from 1970 not by landing on the Moon, but by looping around its far side on a free-return path while the Moon’s ell

A 14-year-old who applied to NASA, was rejected, and ended up cleaning a space toilet on work experience in Leicester now leads Mars exploration studies at the European Space Agency

For billions of years, Earth’s magnetic field may have been doing something unexpected: helping guide particles stripped from our upper atmosphere across the 385,000 kilometres to the Moon, where they became trapped in lunar soil — a 2025 finding that ad

Voyager 1 crossed into interstellar space in August 2012, yet it remains inside the gravitational reach of our Sun — true departure from the solar system, via the Oort Cloud, won't happen for 30,000 years