Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A crowd gathers around the Discovery space shuttle at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum's center in Chantilly, Virginia, in ...

Washington, D.C. is famous for its Smithsonian museums, but beyond those well-known institutions the city hides several lesser-known museums worth exploring.

A full-scale model of Parker Solar Probe, the history-making Johns Hopkins APL-built spacecraft that has flown closer to the ...

WASHINGTON -- Smithsonian museums and the National Zoo, which receive federal funding, are closing temporarily amid the federal government shutdown. The shutdown impacts all 21 of the Smithsonian's ...

The jewel of the new "Futures in Space" exhibit at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., is a Blue Origin New Shepard crew capsule. Visitors who come to the museum to be ...

Space for Humanity, the global nonprofit dedicated to expanding access to space and sharing the transformative power of the Overview Effect, partnered with Amazon MGM Studios and Amazon's Public ...

Regarding “Cornyn escalates space shuttle saga, seeks DOJ investigation,” (Oct. 22): U.S. Sen. John Cornyn inserted into the federal budget funds for taking the space shuttle Discovery from the ...

A Republican-led plan to move to Houston the Discovery space shuttle, an iconic holding of the National Air and Space Museum since 2012, has set off a fight for the future of the orbiter, which the ...