A memo sent by the Smithsonian said transporting Discovery could swell in price and result in irreparable damage to the space ...

NASA's space shuttle was a large, heavy vehicle, and needed an even larger, heavier low-wing aircraft to transport it across ...

Space exploration has changed how we look at the universe, but it's costly, and some of the most iconic NASA missions are ...

A Republican-led plan to move to Houston the Discovery space shuttle, an iconic holding of the National Air and Space Museum since 2012, has set off a fight for the future of the orbiter, which the ...

NASA’s Joe Acabá has been replaced by Scott Tingle as the head of the Astronaut Office. The former Central Florida educator ...

Texas lawmakers have demanded the Discovery shuttle be moved to the Johnson Space Center in Houston, but daunting technical challenges remain—and Virginia officials have dug in against the move. The ...

A proposal to move Space Shuttle Discovery from its home at the Smithsonian’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center has sparked widespread criticism. Engineers, historians, and former NASA staff warn the plan ...

Sen. John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, was among a bipartisan group of legislators who introduced the Space Research And ...

This year is the 25th anniversary of humans inhabiting the International Space Station. A new PBS documentary looks at how the ISS was built and the challenges of surviving in outer space.

An expanded range of training programmes and weekly workshops in space, rocketry, artificial intelligence (AI), and ...

The ISS has “come into its own as a very sophisticated scientific laboratory,” says retired NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, who famously spent a year in space aboard the station in 2015 and 2016.