The teleconference will stream on the agency's website at 11 a.m. EDT (1500 GMT) and is expected to include some "visuals" ...

The head of NASA has decided to move one of the agency’s retired space shuttles to Houston, but which one seems to still be up in the air.

At the center of the image, the most striking feature is the binary star system Pismis 24-1. Once mistakenly thought to be ...

Space shuttle Discovery may be removed from the Smithsonian and put on display at Space Center Houston, if two senators from Texas get their way.

Discovery, the longest-serving orbiter in the space shuttle fleet, departed Kennedy Space Center in Florida around dawn today, and is expected to arrive at Washington Dulles International Airport ...

New research has unveiled the potential for an atmosphere around an Earth -sized planet located approximately 40 light-years ...

Discovery, the longest-serving orbiter in the space shuttle fleet, will be accepted into the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum collection. The space shuttle has been the icon for American ...

Shuttle Discovery docked at the International Space Station Wednesday with a crew of seven, including the largest group of female astronauts ever to fly in space.

In 2005, Discovery was at it again: returning the U.S. to space following the 2003 Columbia disaster. But just five years later, the Space Shuttle program was retired.

Dubbed the workhorse of NASA's space shuttle fleet, Discovery is about to see its last mission in a 26-year career studded with milestones.

A "significant" hydrogen gas leak from part of the space shuttle Discovery has forced NASA to scrub the craft's planned liftoff until at least the end of the month. Discovery and her six-astronaut ...