When a spacecraft comes home without people on board, it is not a cinematic failure but a carefully choreographed engineering ...

The loss of the Space Shuttle Challenger and its seven brave astronauts 40 years ago inflicted a generational wound on the ...

NASA's space shuttle Challenger completed 10 missions before it broke apart during a launch in 1986, killing seven astronauts ...

The taikonaut trio had been scheduled to come home Wednesday (Nov. 5). When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Three Chinese astronauts ...

Veteran NASA astronaut Suni Williams announced her retirement Tuesday. Her extended mission to orbit due to the troubled Boeing Starliner test flight was her final foray.

NASA astronaut Suni Williams, who famously stayed in space for an extended nine-month visit after problems with an ...

On a cold, sunny morning in Florida, after several scrubs due to weather, the launch was a highly-anticipated event.

On Jan. 28, 1986, America witnessed a tragedy: the explosion of Space Shuttle Challenger in the blue skies over Florida. The ...