The National Air and Space Museum is located between 6th Street and Independence Avenue in Washington, D.C., the capital of ...

The trailblazing Harvard scientist, who documented the dominance of hydrogen and helium in stars, is still inspiring ...

Seattle's Museum of Flight brings its collection of space artifacts up to the present day with a Blue Origin BE-3U rocket ...

Since those early steps, extravehicular activity has helped provide the solutions to many problems that astronauts face in ...

Last year, we covered the restoration of the National Air and Space Museum's Ilyushin Il-2 Shturmovik at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. Now complete, the aircraft will join the new Jay I. Kislak ...

Smithsonian and NASA scientists set out to collect an asteroid sample that may hold clues to the origins of life in our solar system.

Cori Carter, a teacher at the Blue Hill Consolidated School, has been selected to take part in the Teacher Innovator ...

Around the world, museums are grappling with the question of what to do with human remains. This includes lifelike copies of those who may have died traumatically.

The museum, one of the Smithsonian Institution facilities ... In 1995, the National Air and Space Museum planned to exhibit items affected by the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ...

Some ISS astronauts experience Spaceflight Associated Neuro-Ocular Syndrome, which may result in puffy eyes, decreased near ...