Space & Aviation

Pilot William C. Hopson had 741 hours of flight time when he became an airmail pilot on April 14, 1920. Hopson flew 413,034 miles, more than all but two of the service’s 44 pilots, logging 4,043 hours in the air.

Falling debris can travel at about 30 times the speed of sound, creating sonic booms that shake the ground

Named “Cloud-9,” the discovery is a new type of celestial object known as a RELHIC, which is unlike anything scientists have ever observed

Like a recording artist who has had a long career, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has a “back catalog” of cosmic recordings that is impossible to replicate. To access these X-ray tracks, or observations, the ultimate compendium has been .... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.

Delicious, nutritious, LIVE! In our first-ever live podcast taping from the Museum, we spoke to a chef, a curator of Space History, and the inventor of a next-gen space oven about the future of cooking and eating in space.

Humans have been eyeing the colorful Ring Nebula for nearly 250 years, but testing out a new telescope tool led to the perplexing finding

On Earth, deep-sea vents may have given rise to the planet’s first life. But nothing of the sort seems to be happening at the bottom of Europa’s ocean, a study suggests

Scientists haven’t heard from the MAVEN orbiter since December 6. It had been studying the Martian atmosphere for over a decade