As NASA saw its first asteroid sample return to Earth this past weekend, three museums took particular notice, knowing that they had been chosen to display small examples of the newly landed space ...

WASHINGTON — NASA has selected 13 informal education providers to share $6.9 million in grants through the Competitive Program for Science Museums and Planetariums. Participating organizations include ...

Museums interested inexhibiting NASA's space shuttle orbiters after they're retired in 2010 may needto meet certain requirements set by the space agency on Wednesday, includingthe ability to ...

Exhibits, planetarium shows, and community-based programming are among 18 projects NASA has selected to receive agency funding in 2012. The projects consist of 11 informal education providers and ...

Fifteen years after NASA opened its archive of space artifacts to schools and museums, the program still has a lot to give. The space agency recently began accepting applications for its 60th ...

NASA's new chief Jared Isaacman said a controversial proposal to move the space shuttle Discovery to Texas from its current ...

HOUSTON, Texas -- NASA's Crew Compartment Trainer-2 in December will be part of the Lone Star Flight Museum's display. The video featured above is SkyEye capturing the NASA space shuttle simulator ...

People love the dinosaurs outside the Children's Museum of Indianapolis. So apparently does NASA. On the same day the dinosaurs at the intersection of 30th and North Illinois streets were seen ...

NASA on Tuesday said it will assign three space orbiters and a similar-looking glider from the shuttle program to sites on the East and West coasts, leaving out the National Museum of the U.S. Air ...

Alan Shepard became the first American to fly in space on May 5, 1961. Although NASA engineers had put considerable planning into his mission, dubbed Freedom 7, noticeably missing from this extensive ...

Q&A: Ex-NASA chief scientist Ellen Stofan, who'll be the first woman to run the National Air and Space Museum, also discusses rockets, Mars and discrimination. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers ...