A memo sent by the Smithsonian said transporting Discovery could swell in price and result in irreparable damage to the space shuttle. On paper, it reads like a riddle: How do you transport a 120-foot ...

Houston – the city that orchestrated NASA's space shuttle missions but received the ultimate snub of not getting one to display – could finally get its due. The two U.S. senators from Texas, John ...

On Friday night, when UCF takes the field against Houston in what’s being billed as “The Space Game,” there’s really only one question worth asking: Which school is truly America’s “Space University”?

Houston, long dubbed Space City, has anchored America’s cosmic ambitions since NASA planted its Johnson Space Center there in 1961. What began as a government-led enterprise on a donated 1,000-acre ...

Houston has been tied to human spaceflight for decades. Now, the city’s companies are chasing something that’s less romantic but more lucrative: harnessing the flood of data collected in space.