The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum has announced the next phase of gallery openings at its flagship building in Washington, D.C. Five new exhibitions, the Lockheed Martin IMAX Theater and ...

Two satellite images taken 34 years apart show the decline of Lake Powell. The right image, taken by Landsat 8 in 2018, shows how much Lake Powell has decreased in size since 1984, when the left image ...

Visit us in Washington, DC and Chantilly, VA to explore hundreds of the world’s most significant objects in aviation and space history. Free timed-entry passes are required for the Museum in DC. Join ...

The Air Tractor AT-301/400A was donated to the museum by owner Rusty Lindeman to commemorate the 100th anniversary of agricultural aviation. The Air Tractor was painted to match the scheme of "Dusty ...

Construction of the USS Shenandoah began on February 11, 1922. The airship’s first flight was on September 4, 1923. But while the Saturn V would fulfill its promise of opening a new chapter of ...

Joseph Kittinger traveled to the edge of space—and jumped. On August 16, 1960, Joe Kittinger went for a balloon ride. Sitting inside an open gondola suspended from an enormous helium-filled envelope, ...

Memorial for Space Shuttle Columbia STS-107 crew at National Air and Space Museum in February, 2003. (Smithsonian Institution Archives) ...

We’ve all seen the breathtaking Hubble and JWST images of our universe, but have you ever wondered how these pictures are made? If you were to travel to the “Cosmic Cliffs” of the Carina Nebula or the ...

At the turn of the 20th century, astronomy got a serious glow-up. On today’s episode, we’re telling the story of how the work of many astronomers contributed to a complete redesign of how big we know ...

On August 6, 2022, the Curiosity rover reached a major milestone on Mars: 10 years of exploring Gale crater. Although getting on in years by rover standards (the Opportunity rover set the record of ...

The Artemis I mission, scheduled to launch from Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday, November 16, at 1:04 am ET, is an uncrewed test flight of NASA’s new Moon rocket – the Space Launch System, aka SLS – ...

It’s Halloween eve, 1938, and you're listening to the radio when you hear a breaking news bulletin that there's been a Martian attack!... On New Jersey? Obvious spoiler: there was no Martian attack ...