The new Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile will transform astronomy with its extraordinary ability to map the universe in ...

Powered by the largest digital camera ever built, Rubin Observatory has taken its first images—millions of stars and galaxies ...

Aerial views of SpaceX Starship 24 and Super Heavy booster 7 mated at SpaceX's Starbase facility in South Texas. Credit: ...

See the view of the flight 8 Starship launch from a camera on the launch mount. The SpaceX Mega Rocket launched from Starbase ...

Top left: The space shuttle Enterprise is lifted off of a barge and onto the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum where it will be on permanent displayed, Wednesday, June 6, 2012 in New York.

Additional shuttle missions in 1997, 1999, 2002 and 2009 also visited the observatory, extending its lifetime and expanding its view each time with new hardware and better instruments.

The shuttle was flown to Vandenberg and above the Ventura, Santa Barbara and Santa Maria areas to give the public a view of the craft that will be launched from the Lompoc base in October 1985.

The new home of NASA's retired space shuttle Endeavour, the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center, has reached new heights and the California Science Center is celebrating with a "topping off" ceremony.

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The Endeavour space shuttle’s new home reached another major construction milestone Thursday with a ceremonial “topping out.” A few of the final steel beams were lifted into place for the ...

NASA knew launching a Space Shuttle in cold weather reduced the safety margin on its solid rocket boosters, which led to the Challenger accident. And shuttle managers knew foam routinely fell off ...

This vintage shot of the southern lights was captured in April 1985 by astronaut Robert F. Overmyer aboard the space shuttle Challenger. You may like Lights on Mars!