Technology & Innovation

Astronomers spend much of their time mapping the universe, but until now their results have been collected and archived in so many different ways that the data can’t talk to each other.

In 2015, the Museum began a process of reimagining all its gallery spaces. A lot had changed since the Space Hall’s last major update in 1997. As a result, the Space Race exhibition was reimagined as the RTX Living in the Space Age exhibition.

New observations of WD 1856 b, a gas giant closely orbiting a white dwarf, offer a preview of what could happen to Jupiter and Saturn after the sun dies in about five billion years.

Previously, researchers created electrical implants to control cockroaches’ movements for search-and-rescue missions. Now, they’ve made 3D-printed suits that provide oxygen, allowing the critters to survive submerged for up to three hours.

Robert Falcon Scott led an expedition aboard the ship ‘Terra Nova’ and Ernest Shackleton led one from the ship ‘Quest’—but neither explorer got to plant the first flag in the heart of Antarctica.

Soldiers and civilians alike enjoyed the strategy game Ludus Latrunculorum in the Roman Empire, especially in Roman Britain.

50 years ago in 1976, a recent high school graduate walked through the doors of the brand-new National Air and Space Museum building on the National Mall. Cathleen Lewis couldn’t have known that one day she would return, not as a visitor, but as .... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.

After a year of testing, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has started capturing data as part of the much-anticipated Legacy Survey of Space and Time.