The Schmidts' philanthropic research organization will build a 3-meter space telescope and fund three ground-based facilities.

Michaela 'Michi' Benthaus is an aerospace and mechatronics engineer at the ESA. Blue Origin will make history when it sends the first person who uses a wheelchair past the Kármán line, an ...

Sens. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn, both Republicans of Texas, want the space shuttle Discovery to be moved to Space Center Houston from its current location at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center near ...

In March, a SpaceX craft carrying astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams splashed down near Florida after a 17-hour journey from the International Space Station. Photo: Getty Images Boeing’s ...

DOWNEY – The Columbia Memorial Space Center broke ground Monday on a 40,000-square-foot expansion that will finally bring Downey’s original space shuttle mockup — known as Inspiration — back into ...

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A memo sent by the Smithsonian said transporting Discovery could swell in price and result in irreparable damage to the space shuttle. On paper, it reads like a riddle: How do you transport a 120-foot ...

Three Chinese astronauts are stuck in space after their shuttle was used to cart another group back to Earth, leaving them in the dust. Astronauts Zhang Lu, Wu Fei and Zhang Hongzhang, all with the ...

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There has been only one mission of the Artemis program to date, an uncrewed test flight of the Orion spacecraft that was conducted back in 2022. Judging this solely from this perspective, you could be ...

Three Texas lawmakers accuse the Smithsonian Institution of "illegal lobbying" to block the relocation of the Space Shuttle Discovery from its Virginia museum to Houston, prompting a request for a ...

Even in retirement, the space shuttle Discovery exudes power, seen across a hangar crowded with planes and jets at its museum home in Chantilly, Va. Charred and worn from its record 39 missions to ...