The first Space Shuttle was originally going to be named Constitution. US President Gerald Ford agreed to rename it ...

Discover how the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum is bringing expert talks, hands-on artifacts, and preservation ...

A growing movement is fighting to keep Space Shuttle Discovery at the Smithsonian, warning that a proposed move to Houston ...

The prestigious national Hodson Award is presented yearly to one government law office for extraordinary service and ...

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

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

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 ...

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, ...

Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill adds $9.9 billion to NASA’s budget, reversing plans to cut the Space Launch System and Orion.

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

(CNN) — Here’s a look at the first moon landing on July 20, 1969. The moon landing was watched by an estimated 600 million people around the world. July 20, 1969 - [4:17 p.m. EDT] Apollo 11 becomes ...