When NASA shuttered the shuttle program in 2011, Houston's Johnson Space Center was snubbed for one of the retired orbiters ...
Challenger Center and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) announce Laurie Hamzik, Kenji Nomura, and Lillian Reynolds as the winners of the 2026 Trailblazing Science, ...
The 250th anniversary of the adoption of the U.S. Declaration of Independence July 4, 2026, known as the Semiquincentennial, is a historic milestone. Two-and-a-half centuries ago, 56 signatures on a ...
No one has set foot on the moon since America left in 1972. NASA is heading there again, but hasn't explained why the trip ...
The national mammal of the United States is getting in on America’s 250th birthday celebration. Three bison statues cast in ...
A newly released virtual lap video gives a first look at the Freedom 250 Grand Prix route, showing IndyCars speeding past ...
In 1959, the Luna 2 probe from the Soviet Union became the very first human-made object to reach our closest celestial ...
A testing replica of the “backbone” of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and a full-scale model of the agency’s Parker Solar ...
A full-scale model of Parker Solar Probe, the history-making Johns Hopkins APL-built spacecraft that has flown closer to the ...
In renderings, the route looks like something out of a race car arcade game, with cars whizzing past unmistakable U.S.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Optical Telescope Element Pathfinder and Parker Solar Probe models are now on permanent ...
The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum welcomes two new acquisitions to the collection—the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) Pathfinder and Parker Solar Probe model. The Pathfinder is a ...