The space agency has put out a call for its Moon & Mars Exploration Analog, which recreates the challenges of a long-duration ...

As part of plans to establish a lunar base, the space agency may send to the moon a spare test version of the rover — as well ...

The California Science Center (CSC) has just unveiled the most impressive museum exhibit I’ve ever seen by a margin of 3 ...

How do you teach someone to look at the moon? Not glance at it, the way we all have on a clear night, but truly read it, the way a geologist reads a hillside. That was the challenge NASA set itself ...

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 ...

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 ...

HOUSTON — NASA is now taking the first steps to bring Space Shuttle Discovery to Houston. The agency is asking for feedback on how to safely transport the historic spacecraft from the Smithsonian in ...

In this episode of the Space Minds podcast, host David Ariosto speaks with Eileen Collins, retired NASA astronaut, Air Force colonel and the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle and to command a ...

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 ...