In 1975, a meet-up between American and Soviet spacefarers in orbit showed that the superpowers could work together. Its ...

On Wednesday, Sotheby’s will auction off a chunk of rock believed to have originated on Mars for an anticipated two to four ...

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Jeffrey Rudolph ’78 developed a master plan to build the California Science Center into a center of science, learning, and ...

Aside from its public-friendly museum, the Center also houses the Getty Research Institute, the Getty Conservation Institute, ...

I knew I was alone,” he observed later, “in a way that no earthling has ever been before.” That quote is immortalized on a ...

After 59 years of tradition for the Reno Air Races in Nevada, just how the Roswell races will turn out is an open discussion.

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The Senate appropriations committee challenges Trump’s 2026 budget, aiming to protect NASA Science and NSF from major cuts.

The shrimp feast in space has gone viral, but shrimp cocktail has actually been a go-to protein for astronauts for at least the past 60 years. Edward White, an astronaut on the 1965 Gemini 4 mission, ...