In a letter to Congress, museum officials have warned the shuttle may need to be partially disassembled in order to be ...

Texas legislators accused the Smithsonian of potentially violating anti-lobbying laws. The Smithsonian told Congress moving ...

In 1978, Ride and five other women became the first group of female astronauts in the U.S. A new book by a longtime curator ...

Three U.S. lawmakers from Texas are accusing the Smithsonian Institution of engaging in “illegal lobbying” to block Discovery ...

From historic Everest summits to Jane Goodall’s chimpanzee research, National Geographic magazine and its famed covers have ...

MIT astronauts aboard the International Space Station—and the MIT researchers who have sent up experiments—have advanced our ...

Three Texas Republicans urged the Justice Department to investigate their allegations that the Smithsonian broke lobbying law.

Houston helps powers America. Imagine what we could do if Washington invested $40 billion here instead of Argentina.

have called for the Space Shuttle Discovery to be relocated from the National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center near Washington, D.C., to the visitors center at NASA’s Johnson Space ...

“It’s a chance for families, students and anyone curious about the cosmos to get an up-close experience of Mars that is both ...

Texas lawmakers have demanded the Discovery shuttle be moved to the Johnson Space Center in Houston, but daunting technical challenges remain—and Virginia officials have dug in against the move.