Aerospace engineer Michi Benthaus will become the first wheelchair user ever to reach space today (Dec. 18), and you can ...

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin delayed the launch of a crew of six on a suborbital joyride Thursday, citing an unspecified issue ...

This year sees a quarter of a century of continuous human presence aboard the International Space Station (ISS), and to mark ...

Inside the American Museum of Natural History's glass cube, the Frederick Phineas and Sandra Priest Rose Center for Earth and ...

In Washington, D.C., the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum has been undergoing an extensive renovation, with a new layout and exhibits.

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Three Chinese astronauts are stuck in space after their shuttle was used to cart another group back to Earth, leaving them in the dust. Astronauts Zhang Lu, Wu Fei and Zhang Hongzhang, all with the ...

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A Republican-led plan to move to Houston the Discovery space shuttle, an iconic holding of the National Air and Space Museum since 2012, has set off a fight for the future of the orbiter, which the ...

Texas lawmakers have demanded the Discovery shuttle be moved to the Johnson Space Center in Houston, but daunting technical challenges remain—and Virginia officials have dug in against the move. The ...

The Boeing 747 has taken many forms in its decades of service. First introduced in 1970, the Queen of the Skies has flown for airlines all over the world. It has also had a handful of side gigs over ...

Col. Eileen Collins was the first woman to pilot and command a NASA space shuttle. Collins commanded the first flight after the 2003 Columbia tragedy, which also experienced a foam-shedding issue.