Two years after the closure of the Red Balloon Learning Center, Columbia is set to open a new childcare center ... is set to open at 560 Riverside Drive this fall in a newly renovated space, following ...

Known for her record-setting spacewalks, Williams remains a powerful role model for aspiring astronauts ... her doctorate and flew aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia. Her life was tragically ...

The Trump administration's deadline to Columbia University to make changes is set for the end of the day Thursday. If Columbia doesn't make the changes requested by the Trump administration ...

The growth in the population of satellites and debris in orbit, driven by megaconstellations like SpaceX’s Starlink, has provided a new impetus to efforts to better model how space weather ...

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NASA hired SpaceX and Boeing after the shuttle program ended, in order to have two competing U.S. companies for transporting astronauts to and from the space station until it's abandoned in 2030 ...

on Tuesday after nine months at the International Space Station. Wilmore, Williams, NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov were greeted by a pod of dolphins that ...

Three years later, she made history as the first woman of Indian origin in space when she flew aboard Space Shuttle Columbia on mission STS-87 in 1997. During this mission, she served as a mission ...

As astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams get their land legs back on Earth, the effects of being stranded in space for nine months — and their recovery — will give scientists a ...

Two NASA astronauts have splashed down off the coast of Florida after spending more than nine months stuck in space. Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams waved as they left their capsule - nearly an ...

NASA’s Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore — who gained international attention as their planned short stay in space stretched into a more than nine-month, politically fraught mission — are ...