There is a battle brewing over ownership of a retired NASA space shuttle. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed into law by ...

Meet the Conroy Virtus—an audacious plan to merge two B-52 bombers into a colossal aircraft capable of carrying and launching the Space Shuttle mid-air. This video explains how engineers hoped to ...

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 ...

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.

After all, it is the name behind the Space Shuttle as we ended up having it, and the B-1 Lancer nuclear bomber. Before rising to fame, though, the company came up with this weird shuttle design ...

For the task of designing a Space Shuttle transporter, Conroy imagined using the seriously chopped fuselages of two Boeing B-52 Stratofortress nuclear bombers, joined together in such a way as to ...

ATLAS-1 launched to space on March 24, 1992. Thirty years later, this predecessor spacelab to the ISS still holds interest for scientists here on Earth.

Sunday marks the 38th anniversary of the Challenger space shuttle explosion, a disaster that killed seven people 73 seconds after launch.

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

Karol Bobko, an Air Force pilot who joined NASA as an astronaut in 1969 and then waited 14 years before going into space, piloting the first voyage of the shuttle Challenger nearly three years ...

The name was changed and the Space Shuttle Enterprise rolled off the manufacturing site in 1976 with Gene Roddenberry and the Original Series cast in attendance, according to NASA records.

Can a Retired Rocket Engine Take Us to Mars? The space shuttle’s main engine was mothballed with the program in 2011. Now NASA believes it’s the future of interplanetary travel.