Columbia University faculty, staff, students and alumni are staging a 25-hour speak out Monday. They say they are doing it in ...

Hubble was built with a number of instruments onboard, including the Wide Field Planetary Camera (WFPC), the Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS), the Faint Object Camera (FOC), the Faint ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is celebrating its 35th anniversary in space today, but even as a senior citizen in the spacecraft ...

On April 14, 1981, the first space shuttle mission returned to Earth after a two-day flight in space. The space shuttle Columbia safely touched down on Rogers dry lake at Edwards Air Force Base in ...

but the Columbia space shuttle disaster a year later cast doubt on future servicing missions. After the shuttle returned to flight, only enough space shuttle missions to complete construction of ...

This year’s Space Symposium delivered that same optimism, even as political and financial uncertainty raise new questions.

NASA’s oldest serving astronaut returned to Earth on Saturday following a 7-month mission on board the International Space Station (ISS). Don Pettit marked his 70th birthday with a special homecoming, ...

Space missions are all about precision and planning… or at least, they’re supposed to be. But even in the vast, high-tech ...

The space shuttle Columbia safely touched down on Rogers dry lake at Edwards Air Force Base in California, where hundreds of thousands of people showed up to watch. Only two astronauts were on the ...

The Challenger and Columbia disasters of 1986 and 2003 ... But Wayne Hale, a former manager for the space shuttle program, had a different take. His blog post from 2011, informed by a conversation ...

Veteran NASA astronaut Don Pettit celebrated his 70th birthday as he returned to Earth from a seven-month stay at the ...