When Space Shuttle Discovery touched down for the last time at Kennedy Space Center Runway 15 on March 9, 2011, it brought to an end a 27-year career of spaceflight. Discovery flew to space 39 times, ...

Astronomers have long been concerned about reflections from satellites showing up in images taken by telescopes and other ...

Using a high-energy X-ray system, they turned the satellite effectively transparent, revealing fuel and gas tanks, hidden ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is a masterwork of engineering and human ingenuity. Hubble is comparable in size and weight to a large school bus, but its contributions to science and astronomy could fill ...

The chief investigator of the Columbia disaster testified yesterday that NASA officials gravely erred by refusing to seek photographs of the damaged space shuttle in orbit and that a rescue mission ...

After the International Space Station is decommissioned, China and possibly Russia will have active space stations in low Earth orbit. America will not.

Former ISS Program Manager Michael Suffredini reviews the creation of the International Space Station, detailing assembly, ...

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Jared Isaacman, President Trump's pick to lead NASA, is on board with moving the space shuttle Discovery to Houston, according to one of the senators behind the controversial plan.

A computer-generated image of the football-field-sized International Space Station. Editor at Large The last time no representative of the human race was in space Bill Clinton was in his final year in ...