On January 28th, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger lifted off from Florida, carrying seven astronauts. Just over a minute later, it exploded in a fireball, shocking the world. This documentary ...

In 1978 Nasa announced 35 new astronauts for a new era of spaceflight – and six of them were women. Here's how the Space ...

Fantastical conflicts in outer space were a staple of popular culture in the 1980s. Yet one battle that reached into the ...

An Ocean County school district is seeking a buyer for the middle school named for astronaut Christa McAuliffe that permanently closed in June. The Jackson school district is setting a minimum asking ...

An Ocean County school district is seeking a buyer for the middle school named for astronaut Christa McAuliffe that permanently closed in June. The Jackson school district is setting a minimum asking ...

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union secretly built its own space shuttle to rival America’s NASA program. Called Buran, it looked like the Space Shuttle but hid radical differences. In this ...

McArthur launched on two spaceflights, logging 213 days in orbit across her nearly 25 years, and held leadership positions at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. Astronaut Megan McArthur has ...

NASA's interim administrator, Sean Duffy, said Thursday he has heard the recent talk about how some people are starting to believe that China will land humans on the Moon before NASA can return there ...

Lt. Gen. Sean Gainey, commander of U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, speaking at the Space and Missile Defense Symposium in Huntsville, Ala., discussed new initiatives to grow the Army's ...

Spaceflight makes certain human stem cells age faster, a new study has found, furthering scientists’ understanding of the potential effects of space exploration on the human body. Stem cells are found ...

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that Space Command’s headquarters would move from Colorado to Alabama — capping off a yearslong fight over where the command should be based. While Space ...

Space Command is responsible for military operations beyond Earth's atmosphere, or about 62 miles and higher. Trump re-established Space Command in 2019 during his first term. It was originally ...