The 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster, which took the lives of 7 astronauts, changed NASA’s culture and risk-appetite ...

In the July 2003 issue of Astronomy, Bob Berman describes some of the space age’s failures, from the tragic loss of the shuttles Columbia and Challenger to the nearly catastrophic Apollo 13 mission.

"It's the only launch vehicle that can meet the orbit, the schedule and the cost to achieve something unprecedented with ...

A survey of space shuttle Atlantis' outer body has revealed that four tiles on the right side have "some dings" in them, the flight director said Tuesday. "As we were going through the surveys we did ...

NASA was created to run America's race into space after the Soviet Union launched the orbiting satellite Sputnik in 1958. Twenty-five years ago, the Challenger spacecraft exploded 73 seconds after ...

Europe’s Copernicus program notched a significant milestone recently with the successful launch of Sentinel-1D, the final ...

A familiar sight along California’s central and southern coast — a Falcon 9 rocket lifting off from Vandenberg Space Force Base — reached a milestone Friday morning as SpaceX set a new annual launch ...