Elmo, Cookie Monster, Grover, Abby Cadabby, Oscar the Grouch and Elmo's puppy Tango hang with WIRED to answer the Internet's ...

“Here, they created a street and a community that closely resembles what kids experience,” says Jeffrey D. Dunn, who arrived to run Sesame Workshop as CEO in 2014. “It’s not fantasy ...

Katy Perry, Lauren Sanchez, Gayle King and the rest of the Blue Origins crew who flew to space on Monday may not technically be astronauts, according to federal government rules. Despite ...

After Katy Perry, Lauren Sanchez and four other women blasted into space yesterday, Blue Origin proudly declared that they had officially become astronauts. 'We just completed our 11th human ...

It's been more than 60 years since a woman travelled into space without a man. And now six of them have blasted off from Earth. Popstar Katy Perry, author Lauren Sanchez, journalist and TV ...

At least one astronaut forgot to file until they had left for a moon mission. Just like the rest of us, NASA astronauts pay taxes. Astronauts are supposed to file taxes no matter where they are ...

The women are part of Blue Origin's first all-female space flight, and they're taking off in suits custom-made by Monse Michael Nied has been a digital news editor with PEOPLE since 2025. He has ...

It is named after astronaut Alan Shepard, the first American in space. During each launch, the rocket reaches initial speeds exceeding 2,000 mph – much faster than the speed of sound ...

Named after astronaut Alan Shepard, the first American in space, the New Shepard is composed of both a rocket and a crew capsule and is designed to be fully reusable. The New Shepard's crew ...

The rocket flies itself so does not need to be piloted by the astronauts. Strictly speaking, it is not quite the first female-only space flight: in 1963 a Russian cosmonaut, Valentina Treshkova ...