How the first flights of Concorde reflected the exuberance and geopolitical realities of the time.

Jan. 31 marks the day Ham, a chimpanzee, was launched into sub-orbital space in a Mercury capsule aboard a Redstone rocket to ...

Coming from one of the world's largest astrophysical research institutes, I can tell you, the anticipation across the global space science community is electric.

CU Boulder held a memorial march Saturday to mark the 40th year since the Space Shuttle Challenger tragedy and the 23rd year since the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, honoring astronauts who died ...

The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum is celebrating 50 years since the building in Washington, D.C., opened to the public and will commemorate this milestone throughout 2026. The museum ...

Five new galleries debut July 1, marking the museum's 50th anniversary and completion of an eight-year renovation.

On this day, pioneering aviator Glenn H. Curtiss made what is widely recognized as the first successful seaplane flight in the United States.

Forty years ago today, disaster struck NASA’s human spaceflight program when the space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds ...

In the mid-1800s, before the Civil War, Thomas White fled his enslavement in Maryland for freedom. It was a risky escape, one that involved a horseback ride under the cover of darkness, abolitionists ...

NASA’s Artemis II mission will carry historical mementos aboard Orion as it orbits the Moon, continuing a tradition of spaceflight artifacts and public engagement.

Butterflies closer to the equator have been shown to evolve shared wing patterns faster than their relatives at higher latitudes. That gradient reframes tropical diversity as an active process, shaped ...

The federal government partially shut down early Saturday as Congress did not agree on funding for several agencies before the midnight deadline.