Operating in orbit demands engineering solutions beyond what any airliner or rocket could offer—and the Space Shuttle ...

visiting President John Kennedy at the White House three days later to receive NASA’s Distinguished Service Medal. Since then, more than 700 people have flown to space, crossing the 50-mile ...

Two Texas senators have introduced legislation that would strip the Smithsonian of the retired space shuttle Discovery and ...

China's new Haolong space cargo shuttle. See it launch in this animation. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: China Central ...

An iconic shot of Ed White during his historic first US spacewalk over New Mexico and southern California, June 3-7, 1965. The following is a transcript of the conversation between astronauts while ...

Photographer extraordinaire Don Pettit is about to return to Earth following a seven-month stay aboard the space station. Take a moment to enjoy his best work.

"The singularity is the most mysterious and problematic part of a black hole. It's where our concepts of space and time literally no longer make sense." A team of scientists has developed a recipe ...

While solitary black holes should be common, they are hard to find. The one in Sagittarius revealed itself when it passed in front of a dim background star, magnifying the star’s light and slowly ...

they ended up spending nine months in space," press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Wednesday at the White House. "Joe Biden's lack of courage to act boldly and decisively was a big ...

Finally, on Monday, March 17, the two astronauts climbed into sleek, white spacesuits designed by SpaceX and ... the suits recall the bulky look of the “pumpkin” pressure suits worn by space shuttle ...

Pop star Katy Perry and journalist Gayle King are among six women who traveled aboard Blue Origin’s all-female, suborbital space tourism mission. • The company’s New Shepard rocket lifted ...

This artist’s impression illustrates the mechanism that could be at the origin of the powerful bursts of X-ray light seen from a newly awakened black hole named Ansky. ESA; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: ATG ...