The moonquakes resulted from formation and subsequent activity along a relatively young thrust fault crossing the Taurus-Littrow Valley floor, the site of the last Apollo mission in 1972. The fault ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours. His influence in astronomy continues to this day.

Excalibur III first belonged to famed aviator A. Paul Mantz, who added extra fuel tanks for long-distance racing to this standard P-51C fighter. With it Mantz won the 1946 and 1947 Bendix air race and ...

This first-generation Robonaut, housed at the National Air and Space Museum, was designed by the Robot Systems Technology Branch at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in a collaborative effort with DARPA.

This image depicts the distance from the Earth to the Moon and Sun, and the width of the Moon and the Sun. Not to scale.

The National Air and Space Museum's Teacher Innovator Institute (TII) will welcome up to 30 teachers from across the United States each summer. Teachers will remain with the program for two summers, ...

Explore the story behind hanging an iconic Mustang fighter aircraft at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.

Commercial landers signal a new era in lunar exploration. At the new Moonshot Museum in Pittsburgh, visitors can tour a lunar habitat, design a mission patch, and even build their own model rovers.

Instruments in the Smithsonian collection trace the story of how humans have explored the universe for thousands of years. Join us in taking a look at just a few examples!

Rockets launched the Space Age. They provided the power needed to take spacecraft and people on flights beyond the Earth.

In 1969, nearly 600 million people tuned in to watch the Apollo 11 Moon landing. Four of these rapt viewers were a family of Indian immigrants in Delaware. Four months later that family was driving ...