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

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, ...

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

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

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, ...

This is the story of the Chrysler SERV, the bizarre-looking SSTO spacecraft that could've only been designed by Chrysler at ...

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In the vast silence of space, where every second counts and precision isn't just a luxury—it's survival—astronauts have long turned to their wrists for more than telling time. They've relied on ...