Texas lawmakers have been pushing to move the space shuttle Discovery from Virginia to the Johnson Space Center in Houston. New NASA administrator Jared Isaacman has suggested Discovery may not be ...

The thing is, NASA and the Smithsonian are right to fight back, and Jared Isaacman has their back. "My job now is to make sure we can undertake such a transportation within the budget dollars we have ...

The space shuttle "Discovery" will remain at the Udvar-Hazy Center’s Air and Space Museum for now. Just a few months ago, there were talks to ship the shuttle to Houston, but that conversation shifted ...

NASA is monitoring an asteroid—"2025 XM"—that is expected to pass within 295,000 miles of Earth today, December 9, according to data from the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). The visiting ...

NASA is gearing up for an unprecedented space mission set to launch in 2026, aimed at rescuing the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory. Launched in 2004 to study gamma-ray bursts, Swift has been a crucial ...

If you asked the modern Chrysler group to design a reusable spacecraft these days, what do you think they'd come up with? Would they strap solid rocket boosters to the back of a Durango Hellcat, ...

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When NASA needed a taxi service for its roughly 100-ton space shuttles, it couldn't exactly call an Uber. The agency needed a plane powerful enough for the job. It dug around, and the two candidates ...

The Boeing 747 has taken many forms in its decades of service. First introduced in 1970, the Queen of the Skies has flown for airlines all over the world. It has also had a handful of side gigs over ...

With airplane wings and rocket power, the space shuttle changed how we reached space. Here’s how its three iconic parts worked together. Another troubled trucking company closes down, no bankruptcy ...