Forty years after the Challenger disaster, NPR explores the engineers' last-minute efforts to stop the launch, their decades ...

It’s been 40 years since the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. It was a day the nation slowly realized something had ...

When four astronauts begin a historic trip around the moon as soon as Feb. 6, they'll climb aboard NASA's 16.5-foot-wide ...

As four astronauts are set to be part of NASA’s first crewed mission to the Moon in more than 50 years, experts have flagged ...

Twenty-five names are carved into the black mirror-finished granite: the Challenger seven, the seven who perished in the ...

Families of the astronauts lost in the space shuttle Challenger accident are marking that tragic day 40 years ago. All seven ...

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said the U.S. will return to the moon within President Donald Trump's second term. Isaacman said that will be key to unlocking an "orbital economy," which could ...

NASA employees are seeking more stability in 2026 as they prepare to send humans around the moon and hope to launch a successor to the Hubble Space Telescope. Next year could bring two flagship ...

SpaceX said it experienced an anomaly with one if its Starlink satellites that was likely caused by a small explosion. "The anomaly led to venting of the propulsion tank, a rapid decay in semi-major ...

Last week, NASA revealed that it had lost the signal from its MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) spacecraft, one of just seven Earthly probes currently orbiting Mars. The agency failed to ...

The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Jason Isaacman to lead the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), bringing the roller-coaster road for approving a full-time head of the agency to an ...