Moving the Discovery from Virginia to Texas could be risky for the fragile craft. After the space shuttle Discovery made its ...

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

Even still, according to a letter from the Smithsonian to Congress, the institute has been asked to work with NASA to prepare to move the space shuttle to Houston and verify actual costs associated ...

Launched in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope began as a costly failure — a flawed mirror that blurred the universe. After a ...

Have you ever wondered about the groundbreaking moments and discoveries that shaped our modern lives? From how we communicate ...

A landmark discovery on an ancient branch of the River Nile may have solved the mystery of how the pyramids in Egypt were built centuries ago. The now dried-out waterway, which once ran through Giza ...

Scientists using a global array of radio telescopes have detected the universe’s lowest-mass dark object by observing how it ...

Astronomers have observed a supermassive black hole far from the center of a galaxy where it ought to be giving off bright ...

A newly discovered odd radio circle in space could serve as a time capsule for the violent events that shape galaxies.

From GPS to innovations in computing and optics, technologies developed for space research at UC Santa Cruz touch nearly ...

The largest of three newly found ring shaped structures in the cosmos are almost a million light-years across.