For 73 seconds, a crowd of excited Americans looked to the sky in wonder and awe as they waved goodbye to the crew aboard ...

The Challenger Learning Center is honoring its namesake in 2026, the 40th anniversary of the Challenger space shuttle tragedy ...

A has been around since the Chernobyl explosion and Space Shuttle Challenger accident...but perhaps not for much longer.

Like many American kids who grew up between 1981 and 2011, I dreamed of becoming an astronaut and orbiting the Earth in a Space Shuttle.

Exactly 54 years ago today on Jan. 4, 1972, President Richard Nixon signed a bill authorizing $5.5 million to develop a ...

We're revisiting live broadcasts from Cape Canaveral, with one of the local reporters who covered the launch in real time.

"This was many times more energetic than any similar event and more than any known explosion powered by the collapse of a ...

The International Space Station is seen from the space shuttle Atlantis on July 19, 2011, after it left the orbiting complex.

On social media, reports poured in from Huntsville, Madison, Gurley, New Hope, Triana, and East Limestone County, as people ...

Astronauts orbiting the Earth are drilled to deal with the worst possible scenarios. That includes having to leave a doomed ...

On the other were two more figures in space suits, with the tiniest Stars and Stripes planted in the lunar soil. Cruz ...