Even still, according to a letter from the Smithsonian to Congress, the institute has been asked to work with NASA to prepare to move the space shuttle to Houston and verify actual costs associated ...

Funding for the move of a space shuttle orbiter from the Smithsonian to a Houston museum continues to stir debate among senators.

Discovery has been on display at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum for more than a decade. Now, Senators Ted Cruz and John Cornyn want to bring it to Texas.

Space scientists look back on three decades of exoplanet discoveries—from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with perfectly synchronized orbits ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered phosphine in the atmosphere of a brown dwarf — the same chemical that stoked controversy following claims that it had been detected on Venus and ...

Astronomers have recently made an extraordinary discovery that brings a new layer of complexity to our understanding of the universe: the Odd Radio Circles (ORCs). These strange and massive rings of ...

A new political fight has erupted over whether the Space Shuttle Discovery should remain in Virginia or be relocated to Houston.

After marking the 30th anniversary of the discovery of the first exoplanet around a sun-like star, we now look forward to what the next 30 years might offer.

The White House's Office of Management and Budget is looking into tearing NASA's Space Shuttle Discovery into pieces to move it to Texas.

A new discovery by the James Webb Space Telescope has given scientists fresh insight into Venus and its potential to host life ...

One of Virginia’s crown jewels of tourist attractions, the Discovery Space Shuttle, could be blasting off somewhere else.

A new study co-led by the University of Oxford and Google Cloud has shown how general-purpose AI can accurately classify real changes in the night sky—such as an exploding star, a black hole tearing ...