More than 600 people who have launched into space. Only 100 have been women. Here are those who made milestones with their treks.

Ingrid Christensen was a Norwegian explorer, thought to be among the first women to view Antarctica in the 1930s. She also had part of the coast named after her. American Lois Jones led the first ...

In a strongly worded letter published in Science today (March 21), a group of Chinese-American scientists voice concern that recent proposals from the National Institutes of Health and FBI actions ...