A catastrophic failure occurred 73 seconds after liftoff as the shuttle emerged from “Max-Q,” the period of highest ...

On Jan. 28, 1986, America witnessed a tragedy: the explosion of Space Shuttle Challenger in the blue skies over Florida. The doomed shuttle touched us like we have never been touched before because ...

NASA's next moon rocket is on the launch pad for testing, and you can follow its progress live.

A 2020 astronaut photo shows the oasis town of Jubbah lurking within a paleolake in the wind shadow of Saudi Arabia's "two ...

The 40th anniversary of the Challenger explosion stirs the memories of Long Island educators who watched the disaster on ...

As NASA fosters technologies needed to live and work farther away from home than ever before, the agency’s Technology Transfer program.

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman expressed confidence in the safety modifications for the Artemis II mission, set to launch on Feb. 6.

I viewed her courage with the same awe and respect I saw in the sky full of stars, and I related to her as a woman of my ...

Instead, the shuttle exploded minutes after launching – killing all seven people on board: Christa McAuliffe, Gregory Jarvis, ...

Ohio native Judith Resnik was a mission specialist on the doomed Space Shuttle Challenger when it exploded shortly after ...

Forty years after the Challenger disaster, NPR explores the engineers' last-minute efforts to stop the launch, their decades ...