Space Center Houston near NASA's Johnson Space Center will launch a contest for Texans to name its mock space shuttle. Find out how to participate here.

I remember, back in the heady, optimistic days of the late 1990s and early 2000s, when Volkswagen had just started to build ...

A new book details how design challenges, budget constraints and political considerations set the Space Shuttle up for disaster.

The "One Big Beautiful Bill," now enacted, directs that space shuttle Discovery be removed from the Smithsonian and placed on ...

These are the voyages of the space shuttle Enterprise, boldly renamed by former President Gerald Ford after a massive letter-writing campaign from Star Trek fans.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Pat Duggins of Alabama Public Radio about the Space Shuttle Columbia tragedy, which they both covered 20 years ago next week.

The Space Shuttle Discovery would move to Texas under President Trump’s sweeping tax and spending bill, according to Sen.

The US Space Shuttle and the Soviet Buran are perhaps the most well-known space planes. More recently, the US Space Force teamed up with Elon Musk's company to launch an X-37B space plane.

Perhaps more than any other moment in NASA’s history, the Columbia shuttle disaster reshaped the US space agency’s approach to innovation, forever altering how it balanced risk with the call ...

On Wednesday, four space explorers from four countries launched on a brand new SpaceX Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station, and as the first "Dragon riders" for this vehicle, the Axiom ...

Space enthusiasts across the western United States would capture dramatic video of Columbia's dawn descent, including unusual changes in the shuttle's white-hot plasma trail along with flare-like ...

Carter saved NASA’s space shuttle program — giving the country perhaps its most iconic and recognizable space vehicle.