The former director of NASA's Ames Research Center was the first head of the Mars exploration program in the US and has ...

Ed Smylie, who became a quiet hero of the space age in 1970 when he and his fellow NASA engineers jury-rigged an air filter ...

Now, the U.S. Mint is releasing the Florida Innovation Dollar, the design honoring the Kennedy Space Center with the image of ...

HOUSTON—The proposed deep cut in NASA’s top-line budget for 2026 could mean the agency’s hands-on human spacecraft operations are on a trajectory to draw to a close within five years, veteran ...

The NYC space is where the term ‘black hole’ was coined and where James Hansen became famous for his warnings about climate ...

The NASA James Webb Space Telescope's Picture of the spiral galaxy NGC 2090, placed in the constellation Columba. This stunning image, created using data from Webb’s MIRI and NIRCam instruments, ...

In the latest image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, a strange galaxy called NGC 1961 comes into focus that has just one — ...

Before watches became luxury status symbols, they were essential tools. From spacewalks to moon landings, here are five iconic timepieces that accompanied mankind to space, and to the moon ...

"Man, I gotta pee," Alan Shepard, America's soon-to-be first man in space, radioed to the launch control room from atop his Redstone rocket on May 5, 1961. "Check and see if I can get out quickly and ...

Then, on January 31, 1961, Ham was launched from Cape Canaveral inside NASA's Mercury-Redstone rocket, where his journey didn't quite go to plan. Ham strapped into the biopack couch for the test ...

On National Astronaut Day, a day dedicated to celebrating America’s space icons, the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command team members honor ...