NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers photographed a rare atmospheric phenomenon over the US and Mexico known as a "sprite" that's ...

Trump 'Big Beautiful Bill' provides $85 million to move a NASA space shuttle. Here's where Discovery, which made its inaugural flight in 1984, completed 39 missions before it retired in 2011.

Space Shuttle Atlantis launched into space for the last time on the STS-135 mission. STS-135 was the 33rd flight of Atlantis, as well as the 135th and final mission of NASA’s Space Shuttle Program, ...

The nearly 900-page spending bill, dubbed by President Donald Trump as the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” includes a provision ...

On July 8, 2011, the space shuttle Atlantis launched on its final mission. Atlantis was the last of NASA's space shuttles to ...

Transporting Discovery would be enormously complicated since the two modified Boeing 747s that carried space shuttles mounted ...

Not much can surprise someone who partook in four shuttle missions and three space walks during a 36-year career with NASA.

NASA’s Johnson Space Center managed the shuttle program for four decades, from President Richard Nixon’s directive to develop the shuttle in 1972 to its first flight in 1981 and its final ...

The historic space shuttle Discovery, one of NASA’s most famous orbiters, may soon be moving again—though not into space.

This would have allowed NASA to fly more professional astronauts, but also payload specialists like the agency used to do during the Space Shuttle program.

NASA put out a new call urging its workforce to leave the agency this week through employment buyouts as the U.S. space program faces huge budget cuts proposed by the Trump administration.

Here’s how it works. A NASA robot uses its counterrotating drums to dig up simulated moon dust as NASA mechanical engineer Ben Burdess watches. (Image credit: NASA/Frank Michaux) ...