The Smithsonian is one of the world’s foremost research centers in science, the arts, and the humanities. In addition to ...

A retro-futuristic space truck. A nimble crustacean on wheels. A space-age dune buggy. One will win a multibillion-dollar prize to deploy on a future NASA Artemis mission. But first, we took a ride on ...

Nov. 17: The Leonid Meteor Shower should be best from 1 a.m. to dawn. Under dark sky conditions, the Leonids exhibit a maximum of about 10 to 15 meteors per hour. Nov. 5: Full hunter supermoon — ...

The station’s interior space is roughly equivalent to a six-bedroom house and includes six sleeping quarters, two bathrooms, ...

In 1978, Ride and five other women became the first group of female astronauts in the U.S. A new book by a longtime curator ...

President Trump's orders to review the Smithsonian museums to make sure they "...reflect the unity, progress, and enduring values that define the American story" are further complicating the future of ...

Texas legislators accused the Smithsonian of potentially violating anti-lobbying laws. The Smithsonian told Congress moving the shuttle would require breaking it apart.

The two Texas Senators trying to mandate the relocation of Discovery from the Smithsonian Institution's Udvar-Hazy Center in ...

Lawmakers pushing to move the iconic spacecraft from the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum to Texas just got the Department of ...

Elizabeth C. Babcock, the founding director of the Smithsonian American Women's History Museum in Washington, D.C., returns ...

U.S. Sen. John Cornyn is asking the Department of Justice to investigate the Smithsonian Institution for potential lobbying ...

The Smithsonian recently confirmed that NASA and the museum have been directed by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) ...