Discovery, the showpiece of the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, an annex of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space ...

Eileen Collins reflects on her time as the first female not only to pilot but also command a spacecraft. Here's her experience during NASA's shuttle days.

Texas lawmakers want to move the Smithsonian’s retired space shuttle to Houston. It’s “a vanity project that is apt to ...

SpaceX plans to launch the 11th test flight of its Starship megarocket at 7:15 p.m. EDT (2315 GMT) on Monday (Oct. 13).

For Peanuts' 75th anniversary, see how Snoopy's 55+ year NASA partnership - from Apollo 10 and the Silver Snoopy to Artemis I ...

US former NASA astronaut Joan Higginbotham, 60, who waited for nearly 20 years ahead of her 2006 space mission, says space ...

NASA has revealed 10 new astronaut candidates, with one set to be the first to step on Mars. The four men and six women make up NASA's 24th astronaut class – the space agency's first since 2021. The ...

SpaceX's Starship completed its tenth test flight, achieving key milestones including payload deployment and engine relight in space. The test flight intentionally stressed the spacecraft to gather ...

When boarding a commercial airline flight, most people are more absorbed with finding their seats and space in an overhead bin than wondering whether the pilots have enough experience. Passengers ...

When you go into the large museum hangar at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, you will be blown away by how many planes are already there, but more will be ...

On August 26, SpaceX’s Starship rocket completed its tenth test flight. This time, the only explosions were planned. In the unforgiving realm of space exploration—three recent Starship tests had ended ...