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Today, NASA announced some exciting new discoveries made by its Curiosity rover. Let our experts at the Museum help break down these exciting new findings.

Conservationist and decorate art historians help solve a mystery behind two balloon-themed chairs in our Museum's collection. 

Explore some incredible visitor images from our 2001: The Bromicide Fest exhibition. 

We remember Alan L.  Bean, the fourth man to walk on the Moon and the only artist to have visited the Moon.

How the patches on Sally Ride’s flight jacket help tell her groundbreaking story of spaceflight.

Parsecs are actually astronomical units—not just in the Star Wars universe—used to measure distance, not time. (Sorry, Han.)

The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia, has a new addition: Nemesis NXT, a record-breaking Sport-class air racer.

Filmaker and special effects artist Doug Trumbull shares the behind-the-scenes story of 2001: A Space Odyssey's most groundbreaking scenes. 

The National Air and Space Museum's She Can STEM Summer Camp will offer middle school girls from low-income households a glimpse at the exciting opportunities that aerospace has to offer.

Tom Wolfe, the author of The Right Stuff (1979), one of the most iconic literary books about spaceflight, died this week.