After soaring skyward due east, the rocket's first-stage booster landed aboard SpaceX's drone ship Just Read the Instructions ...

On February 7, 1984, 370 kilometres above the earth, NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless II floated into the payload bay of the ...

Test your knowledge of iconic U.S. astronauts and their historic space missions. This quiz covers pioneering achievements, ...

While terrifying, there's an overlooked NASA spacewalk which looks equally terrifying to untrained Earth-dwellers. In 1984, astronaut Dale Gardner and Joseph Allen flew untethered to recover two ...

Auroras (also called the northern and southern lights) are visible from the ground after powerful solar storms, but these ...

The Smithsonian Institution is fighting efforts by Texas lawmakers to relocate the retired space shuttle Discovery from ...

Author Adam Higginbotham joins John Williams to discuss his book, ‘Challenger:A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space.’ Adam talks about what makes him interested in t… ...

Texas lawmakers secured $85M to move Space Shuttle Discovery to Houston and boost NASA infrastructure, despite opposition and high costs.

There are about three Space Shuttle orbiters currently in operation - Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour, which are all designed to fly at least 100 missions.

Retired Canadian Space Agency astronaut Marc Garneau describes the time he picked up a spinning satellite in space known as Spartan 207. Garneau retrieved the satellite in May 1996 during space ...