The Space Shuttle Challenger STS-51L mission was expected to deploy a communications satellite and study Halley’s Comet. McAuliffe was part of the Teacher in Space Project, ...

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this story misstated the date of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. It occurred Feb. 1, 2003. For millions of Americans, it was an event that ...

It's been 39 years since the Challenger space shuttle, carrying seven people, took off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center, exploding in mere minutes.The disaster — which claimed the lives of ...

On June 20, 1983, the crew of the space shuttle Challenger – including America's first space woman Sally Ride -- deployed an ...

After the Challenger explosion in 1986, he was part of the investigation team that helped determine the cause of the disaster. One of the rockets sent up into space by Celestis. (Photo courtesy of ...

A political effort to relocate the space shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian to Space Center Houston has been merged with the so-called "One Big Beautiful Bill," a major economic and policy package ...

BBC World Service and BBC Sounds have announced their multi-award winning podcast 13 Minutes To The Moon is to return with a ...

Japan’s Honda is giving American SpaceX new competition in the reusable rocket field with its recent successful test on June ...

From the world watching in horror as the Challenger space shuttle exploded to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster that upended ...

Marc Garneau, Canada's first astronaut, passed away this week at the age of 76. Quirks and Quarks host Bob McDonald reflects on their decades-long friendship.