One of Virginia’s crown jewels of tourist attractions, the Discovery Space Shuttle, could be blasting off somewhere else as U ...
Funding for the move of a space shuttle orbiter from the Smithsonian to a Houston museum continues to stir debate among senators.
Discovery, the showpiece of the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, an annex of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space ...
Discovery has been on display at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum for more than a decade. Now, Senators Ted Cruz and John Cornyn want to bring it to Texas. reading time 3 minutes The ...
For the first time, astronomers have witnessed the early stages of planet formation around a distant young star, HOPS-315, ...
A strange shape has appeared in the Universe: a double luminous ring, invisible to the naked eye, but perfectly discernible ...
In addition to the double ring, the program found two other examples. In RAD J122622.6+640622, astronomers saw a galaxy ...
The space shuttle Discovery headed to the pad yesterday for its last trip into space. The 26-year-old craft has seen a lot in its career, some good, some bad, some odd. Here are five highlights: 5.
The U.S. wants to remain a superpower in space. It can’t without supporting NASA In the early 1400s, nearly a century before ...