Space & Aviation

Scientists demonstrated that an Earthly extremophile might withstand being ejected from the Red Planet on debris spewed into space due to an asteroid strike

We welcome Simone Dichiara as a guest blogger. Simone is the first author of a paper that is the subject of our latest press release. He is an Assistant Research Professor at Penn State University and currently works at the Mission Operations .... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.

Installing the Museum’s Lockheed U-2C spy plane took nearly a month. The building’s layout presented some special challenges leading to one of the most complicated installations to date.

Learn how Vera Rubin pushed through gender barriers in the 1950s to discover dark matter.

The mission’s goals have changed, and Artemis 4 will be the first lunar landing attempt. Four missions are tentatively scheduled within the next three years

The orb will take on the spooky hue for about an hour on March 3 because of sunlight filtering through Earth’s atmosphere

The researchers found the galaxy thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope

A crash involving the planet’s largest moon, Titan, and a hypothetical moon may have triggered a curious sequence of events