Artemis II will send four astronauts around the moon in the first crewed flight test of the Space Launch System rocket and the Orion Spacecraft.

Has driving through history ever been so cool, beautiful and timely than visiting Cape Canaveral, the original and current ...

JWST has created a map of dark matter that is twice as good as anything we have had before, and it may help unravel some of the deepest mysteries of the universe ...

Coming from one of the world's largest astrophysical research institutes, I can tell you, the anticipation across the global space science community is electric.

Prelude: It was bitterly cold in Washington for Reagan’s scheduled State of the Union address. But it wasn't the weather that intervened. Instead, the annual event was postponed by a tragedy that ...

On Jan. 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after takeoff. All seven crew members on board were killed ...

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite has once again surprised astronomers by tracking interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, a ...

On Jan. 28, 1986, NASA’s 25th space shuttle mission, Challenger, left the launchpad in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Seventy-three seconds into flight, Challenger exploded over the Atlantic Ocean as ...

Elon Musk has suggested that SpaceX's next Starship rocket launch could occur in early March 2026 from Texas. What's the latest on a Florida debut?

Above, family members of Ellison Onizuka received memorial flags at a ceremony at the National Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl a few months after the disaster.

Jan. 28, 1986, 7 spacefarers were killed when shuttle Challenger exploded midair after launching from Kennedy Space Center in ...

Today marks the 39th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster (Mission STS-51-L), when the shuttle's seven astronauts were killed by an explosion.