A long-anticipated opening of a time capsule from 1985 finally happened on Tuesday, 40 years after it was sealed.

Christopher Browne, John and Adrienne Mars Director, National Air and Space Museum Curators of the five new exhibitions ...

The last Dragon spacecraft that SpaceX plans to build entered orbit for the first time with "grace." Reaching space on the ...

In between, nothing on the Mercury capsule would allow him to perform the simplest of pilot acts: alter his flight path. Sure, he could turn, pitch, and roll this way and that.

A SPACE capsule carrying the remains of 166 people and a bounty of cannabis plants has been lost at sea following a surprise ...

On Thursday, the SpaceX capsule 'Grace' successfully docked with the International Space Station carrying four astronauts. Along with US veteran Peggy Whitson, astronauts from India, Poland, and ...

Last week, as the golden hour lit up London’s Kensington Gardens in that honeyed glow so particular to June, the Serpentine ...

A US commercial mission carrying astronauts from India, Poland and Hungary docked with the International Space Station on ...

In both the Soviet Union and the United States, early space programs used animals as test pilots, with little regard for ...

Catch Beyoncé live, check out the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, and attend a book talk on DC's Latino immigrants.

Freddie Mercury’s early years. Born in Zanzibar in 1946, Farrokh Bulsara, later known as Freddie Mercury, moved to England in his teens. He formed Queen in 1971 at the age of 25.