A NASA astronaut captured a fascinating weather phenomenon that still has scientists scratching their heads. Nichole Ayers is ...

I would much rather see that money invested in NASA’s science program,” said Garrett Reisman, who flew on Discovery as a ...

U.S. Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz got language into President Donald Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill" that creates a path for ...

The Space Shuttle was an engineering marvel that changed the face of space exploration, and understanding how it launched is ...

The concept of a space telescope dates back decades. NASA funding started in the 1970s, before the space shuttle became operational.

The NASA X-38 was an experimental, reusable re-entry vehicle to assist the agency in returning astronauts from the International Space Station (ISS). Only five prototypes were built before the ...

Big Gliders, Big Problems The year was 1963, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration was hard at work testing out an aerodynamic concept that it hoped would guide the next generation ...

The setup made use of a sensor on a chip, a novel concept in the 1990s but one that solved many problems for NASA, including the need to keep the shuttle’s launch weight as low as possible.

These kinds of difficulties might give us some nostalgia for the Space Shuttle program that ran from 1981-2011. NASA built a total of 6.

China’s dream moon base has a NASA Space Shuttle. The China National Space Administration released a video showing its concept for a future lunar base, which it says it will have set up by 2045 ...

The concept of commissioning art at an agency devoted to science was not universally accepted early on, Mr. Dean recalled. He told The Orlando Sentinel in 1983 that some space technicians ...