A group of gold commemorative Sacagawea coins, seven of which traveled into orbit aboard a NASA space shuttle, recently sold for more than $3 million.

Sept. 7, 1925: Yesterday was the hottest day of the summer. The maximum temperature, according to statistics compiled by Professor H.N. Pearce, official weather observer for this district, was 102 ...

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Located at 14390 Air and Space Museum Parkway just south of Dulles International Airport, the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center was ...

NASA has just approved a bold plan to move one of its retired space shuttles to Houston, Texas. But there's a twist. They're ...

When it comes to space, most of us only experience the cosmos at the cinema - whether it’s watching Sandra Bullock hurtle through the blackness of space, or Matt Damon grow potatoes on Mars. But for ...

UCLA and UC San Diego grad Megan McArthur retires at 54 after two decades with NASA. The space and ocean scientist's work ...

On Sept. 7, 1995, the space shuttle Endeavour launched on mission STS-69. This was the 100th successful crew spaceflight mission for NASA. Endeavour lifted off from NASA's historic launch site at ...

Two more of NASA's space telescopes recently got another look at comet 3I/ATLAS, a captivating interstellar interloper that first captured the world's attention in July. The object – just the third ...

A comet known as 3I/ATLAS made news when it was confirmed to be the 3rd-ever object observed to have originated outside Earth's solar system. Though the object poses no threat to Earth, astronomers ...

The FAA is studying the environmental and aviation impacts of up to 44 Starship launches per year from NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Aviation officials and a pilot union have expressed concerns about ...