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

It's been 40 years since the Challenger space shuttle, carrying seven people, took off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center, ...

NASA's tributes to fallen astronauts serve as reminders of the importance of safety in space exploration, as do tributes to ...

Four educator astronauts carried on Christa McAuliffe's mission of venturing to space as a teacher, including two who revived her lost space lessons.

NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft has provided the first direct evidence of atmospheric sputtering on Mars, revealing how solar wind has eroded the planet's atmosphere over four billion years, turning a ...

The Artemis II crew comprises NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen. They will fly in a ...

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

The Space Shuttle Challenger Memorial is seen during a wreath laying ceremony that was part of NASA’s Day of Remembrance, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2026, at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va.

NASA held its annual Day of Remembrance on Thursday to honor those who lost their lives in the pursuit of space exploration.

Twenty-five names are carved into the black mirror-finished granite: the Challenger seven, the seven who perished in the ...

Families of the astronauts lost in the space shuttle Challenger accident are marking that tragic day 40 years ago. All seven ...

NASA observed its annual Day of Remembrance Thursday to commemorate the astronauts killed in the Apollo 1 and space shuttle ...