NASA was winding down its space-shuttle program during the Bush administration when Houston realized it had a problem: None of the four retiring space shuttle orbiters were bound for Texas, even ...

Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex will host a slew of events this summer, tying in America’s 250th anniversary and salutes to the KSC bus tour and the last Space Shuttle flight. “This summer is a ...

You’ll soon be able to see a real space shuttle standing upright in Los Angeles, a view rarely available outside of NASA facilities. A major milestone toward that moment was reached this month as ...

Construction of the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center at California Science Center has been completed after four years, offering the public new exhibit spaces and the permanent home for Space Shuttle ...

Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center by ZGF Architects. Image © Mike Kelley In contrast to the brick cladding of the existing building, the Samuel Oschin Air and Space ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Another space weather feature, coronal mass ejections (shown above) send plasma and magnetic field material from the sun's corona ...

In October 1989, a blast from the sun flung out a stream of super-powered protons. This solar storm lasted for days and forced astronauts working in low-Earth orbit, aboard NASA's Atlantis space ...

Forty years ago, the NASA space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff, killing all 7 crew members. Among the seven crew members were 5 NASA astronauts, as well as a payload specialist ...

After years of lobbying, legislation and public back-and-forth, the Space Shuttle Discovery still isn't headed to Houston—and new comments from NASA's administrator suggest it may never make the trip ...

Sens. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn, both Republicans of Texas, want the space shuttle Discovery to be moved to Space Center Houston from its current location at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center near ...