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.

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

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

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

On October 11, 2012, NASA’s Space Shuttle Discovery embarked on its arduous, 12-mile journey from an airplane hangar to the California Science Center in Los Angeles. The iconic spacecraft had just ...

On Episode 180 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik discuss the headlines, from the shutdown of NASA, to the risky dismantling of the space shuttle Discovery (because Texas insists), to a ...

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

Voyager 1 has been exploring the cosmos for decades, but when it reached the edge of the solar system, it found something very strange and very hot.