The Smithsonian recently confirmed that NASA and the museum have been directed by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) ...

An interstellar comet that originated outside our solar system just flew by the sun. Next, the object will fly by Earth in December.

The James Webb Space Telescope has looked back into deep time to find “rubies” or “little red dots” stretched across the ...

When the Perseverance rover landed in Mars’s Jezero crater—a formation that long ago was Jezero lake—in February, 2021 it turned west. West is where the riverbeds, the deltas, the sites of ancient ...

Space has a way of making scientists throw out their textbooks. Just when astronomers think they understand how the universe ...

Texas lawmakers have demanded the Discovery shuttle be moved to the Johnson Space Center in Houston, but daunting technical challenges remain—and Virginia officials have dug in against the move.

As if dark energy weren't already mysterious and baffling enough, new research suggests that this unknown force may not be ...

Within the next 18 months, the space shuttle Discovery may be disassembled in Washington D.C., transported more than 1,000 miles to Houston and reassembled. But not if grassroots group Keep The ...

HOUSTON — A familiar voice echoed through history with the words, "3, 2, 1… and liftoff of the shuttle Discovery and the Hubble Telescope." That proud moment marked one of NASA’s most iconic ...

Hopkins Bloomberg Center to launch series with top space executives discussing the futuristic technologies fueling the modern ...