The world’s largest collection of artifacts from aviation and space may become temporarily off limits as the Smithsonian Institution's museums, including the National Air and Space Museum in ...

The Smithsonian Institution announced on social media the closure of all its museums and the National Zoo, effective Sunday2, ...

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

Smithsonian museums and the National Zoo, which receive federal funding, are closing temporarily amid the federal government shutdown.

Fantastical conflicts in outer space were a staple of popular culture in the 1980s. Yet one battle that reached into the ...

Defense contracting giant Northrop Grumman, which helped design and build NASA’s Apollo lunar module, has donated $10 million to the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in D.C. The museum’s ...

The National Air and Space Museum will open five new exhibitions, the Lockheed Martin IMAX Theater and the museum’s entrance on Jefferson Drive along the National Mall July 28. The galleries opening ...

A young shooting victim ran into a building near the National Mall for help Friday afternoon, with a bullet hole seen in a ...

Find out how NASA’s astronaut selection process has evolved. Diane Tedeschi Marsha Ivins (at Florida's Kennedy Space Center in 1995) flew on five space shuttle missions, logging more than 1,300 hours ...

A teen was injured in a shooting in the 600 block of Maryland Avenue, Southwest near the National Mall, Southwest Friday ...