History of Science coverage from Scientific American, featuring news and articles about advances in the field.

The massive American flag on NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building is a patriotic icon, but its 1976 bicentennial origin story ...

Celebrating America's 250th birthday, Space.com looks back at what our understanding of space was like in 1776 and what major ...

A symbol of Florida's Space Coast, the VAB at Kennedy Space Center has powered moon missions past and present. Here is its ...

The Museum’s podcast, AirSpace, is preparing a special limited series called 50 Years of Air + Space that will dive into the Museum’s history, its nearly completed renovation, and its plans for the ...

Scientists are digging into the hidden makeup of carbon-rich asteroids to see whether they could one day fuel space exploration—or even be mined for valuable resources. By analyzing rare meteorites ...

Next summer, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will start sidling up to several asteroids near Jupiter. On its way there, it has studied another space rock up close ...

Houston, we have a list of great museums where you can learn about the science of outer space and the history of space travel. Inside the American Museum of Natural History's glass cube, the Frederick ...

The California Science Center (CSC) has just unveiled the most impressive museum exhibit I’ve ever seen by a margin of 3 ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular red, white, and blue view of one of the Milky Way's oldest star clusters to celebrate the nation's 250th anniversary. Hidden within the ancient ...