Astronomers have long been concerned about reflections from satellites showing up in images taken by telescopes and other ...

When Space Shuttle Discovery touched down for the last time at Kennedy Space Center Runway 15 on March 9, 2011, it brought to an end a 27-year career of spaceflight. Discovery flew to space 39 times, ...

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), one of the architects of the Discovery moving plan, said that Isaacman is on board.

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The Hubble Space Telescope is a masterwork of engineering and human ingenuity. Hubble is comparable in size and weight to a large school bus, but its contributions to science and astronomy could fill ...

The soon-to-be Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center will double the amount of exhibit space at the California Science Center.

After the International Space Station is decommissioned, China and possibly Russia will have active space stations in low Earth orbit. America will not.

Thirty-five years ago today a revolutionary new era of astronomy began when the Hubble Space Telescope, tucked onboard the space shuttle Discovery, blasted off Earth into history. The next day a ...

In the vast silence of space, where every second counts and precision isn't just a luxury—it's survival—astronauts have long turned to their wrists for more than telling time. They've relied on ...

Junk is accumulating in space at a fantastic pace, with millions of pieces orbiting the Earth, and humans need to figure out ...