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 ...

May 21 has witnessed a range of significant historical events across the centuries.One of the standout global events on May ...

Experts agree China is a valid threat to NASA's return to the moon plans. Here's why there is a rush to get SLS off the ...

The story of humanity’s journey into space reads like a sci-fi epic. But behind the rockets, moonwalks, and live broadcasts ...

Apollo 10 launched on a mission to the moon. Apollo 10 was considered a "dress rehearsal" for a lunar landing. It did ...

Apollo 10 “dress rehearsal” mission launched into orbit, to set up the Apollo 11 moon landing mission a month later.

The Smithsonian is almost ready to open five more of the Air and Space Museum's halls as its 7-year renovation continues.

Elon Musk has voiced his support for reinstating Pluto's planetary status, responding to a social media prompt advocating for ...

Welcome to the most ironically overdue rescue mission in human history: saving our barely decades-old galactic garbage before ...

The infrastructure of humanity's journey into space may only be decades old, but some of it has already been lost. Now, ...

In 1988, NASA started making MAGs — Maximum Absorbency Garments — for all its astronauts, said Kiona N. Smith, author of Peeing and Pooping in Space. The MAG uses a highly absorbent polymer compound ...