A survey of space shuttle Atlantis' outer body has revealed that four tiles on the right side have "some dings" in them, the flight director said Tuesday. "As we were going through the surveys we did ...

Do you have any idea how much of the space shuttle Challenger is still lost in the ocean? The disaster of this infamous mission was an unthinkable tragedy, but behind the headlines, there's a deeper ...

On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded just 73 seconds after liftoff, live on national television. Behind the tragedy lay ignored warnings, flawed decisions, and a frozen rubber ...

Three Texas lawmakers accuse the Smithsonian Institution of "illegal lobbying" to block the relocation of the Space Shuttle Discovery from its Virginia museum to Houston, prompting a request for a ...

Three Texas GOP lawmakers are alleging that the Smithsonian Institution illegally lobbied Congress to block the transfer of the space shuttle Discovery from a Virginia museum to Houston, home of ...

Lawmakers pushing to move the iconic spacecraft from the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum to Texas just got the Department of Justice involved. Reading time: Reading time 3 minutes Texas Senators have ...

The tug-of-war over space shuttle Discovery is becoming more volatile. Discovery — the crown jewel of the Smithsonian Institution's Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia — is the subject of a ...

U.S. Sen. John Cornyn is asking the Department of Justice to investigate the Smithsonian Institution for “potential violations of the Anti-Lobbying Act,” escalating prior claims as he works to move ...

MIT astronauts aboard the International Space Station—and the MIT researchers who have sent up experiments—have advanced our understanding of science, space, and the universe. On November 2, 2000, ...

Florida offers over 180 specialty license plates, with more than 2.3 million currently issued to drivers. The first specialty plate was introduced in 1987 to honor the astronauts lost in the ...

The universe is truly magical: vast, mysterious, and endlessly fascinating. There’s something almost unreal about being able to see photos captured from the depths of space, where time and distance ...

The Department of the Air Force has approved SpaceX’s plans to launch up to 100 missions per year from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. This would continue the tectonic turnaround at the ...