When Space Shuttle Discovery touched down for the last time at Kennedy Space Center Runway 15 on March 9, 2011, it brought to an end a 27-year career of spaceflight.

The grandest of the great observatories -- Hubble Space Telescope -- Science instruments -- Hubble operations -- Deployment, STS-31R -- Servicing Mission 1 (SM1), STS ...

Megan McArthur retired after a career that included traveling into space twice and becoming the first woman to pilot the SpaceX Dragon reusable spacecraft.

In 1978 Nasa announced 35 new astronauts for a new era of spaceflight – and six of them were women. Here's how the Space Shuttle programme chipped away at one of Nasa's blind spots.

The Hubble Space Telescope is one of the most famous scientific instruments that has ever existed. It’s given the world an unfathomable amount of data and allowed for never-before-imagined exploration ...