NASA is making final preparations for two spacewalks at the International Space Station (ISS). It’s been eight long months ...

The Artemis II mission, which could launch as early as February, is expected to send four astronauts on a trip to the moon, ...

There is nearly 16,700 cubic feet of habitable area aboard the International Space Station (ISS). That makes it larger than a ...

The James Webb Space Telescope blasted off from a launchpad in French Guiana in 2021, before reaching a spot in orbit a million miles away. It soon began breaking cosmology.

The U.S. Capitol on Tuesday began to display a statue of a teenaged Barbara Rose Johns as she protested poor conditions at her segregated Virginia high school, a pointed replacement for a statue of ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This collection contains 17 digital images showing the disintegration of the Space Shuttle Columbia upon its reentry on February 1, 2003. These ...

Some of the nation’s most prestigious colleges have been enrolling record numbers of low-income students as campuses ...

Due to the costs and duration of the Hubble project, NASA was under pressure. At the end of 1995, it released a photo that silenced the critics.

This housemate is utterly unbearable. A California homeowner has been desperately trying to evict an unwanted guest from his property — a 500-pound black bear that’s moved into the crawl space beneath ...

Sens. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn, both Republicans of Texas, want the space shuttle Discovery to be moved to Space Center Houston from its current location at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center near ...

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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 ...