Forty years ago, the Challenger space shuttle disintegrated just after lift-off. A small team of engineers tried to prevent ...

NASA is getting ready to launch its massive, fully expendable rocket for the first crewed flight to the Moon since Apollo.

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

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman appeared to suggest that space shuttle Discovery may not be relocated to Houston's Johnson ...

"I would say this is the most important human spaceflight mission for NASA in more than a half century," NASA administrator ...

NASA's Space Shuttle Program, which ran from 1981 to 2011, was a complex and ambitious project that pushed the boundaries of ...

The United States once poured money and political capital into a spaceplane concept that promised to take off from a runway, reach orbit in a single leap, and slash the cost of spaceflight. Instead of ...

When the space shuttle Atlantis blasts off on Friday, it will mark the final NASA shuttle mission ever. But the shuttering of the 30-year-old program isn’t the end of American space exploration — in ...

NASA's iconic Discovery space shuttle, which launched dozens of times from Florida, may not be relocated to Houston for ...

As the four-person crew of Artemis II prepares to launch on a historic mission around the moon as soon as February, some experts are worried about the Orion spacecraft’s heat shield.