The list reads like a who's who of shuttle pioneers. Charlie Walker, the payload specialist from McDonnell Douglas who became ...

A proposal to move Space Shuttle Discovery from its home at the Smithsonian’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center has sparked ...

A new study has pinpointed how the APOE4 gene variant sabotages the brain’s energy balance, blocking neurons from burning fat ...

A new bacterium found in Hawaiian seawater shows land microbes can reach the ocean through hidden groundwater flow.

Republican Sen. David McCormick defended Donald Trump’s latest controversial moves in a rare interview, including the ...

Texas lawmakers have demanded the Discovery shuttle be moved to the Johnson Space Center in Houston, but daunting technical challenges remain—and Virginia officials have dug in against the move.

Three U.S. lawmakers from Texas are accusing the Smithsonian Institution of engaging in “illegal lobbying” to block Discovery ...

U.S. Sens. John Cornyn (R-TX) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Congressman Randy Weber (R-TX-14) are asking the U.S. Department of ...

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

Three Texas GOP lawmakers are alleging that the Smithsonian Institution illegally lobbied Congress to block the transfer of the space shuttle Discovery from a Virginia museum to Houston, ...