Ad astra per aspera” is an ancient Latin phrase meaning “to the stars through hardships.” Forty years ago, the harrowing hardships of questing for the stars were seen in cold Florida skies when the ...

NASA announced the news Tuesday, shortly after the critical fueling test ended at Kennedy Space Center. Until the exasperating hydrogen leaks, the space agency had been targeting as soon as this ...

A Houston-area Catholic school science teacher said the Challenger disaster remains one of the most defining moments of her early understanding of science and human exploration, ...

Jane Anderson’s play “Defying Gravity” explores the Challenger disaster, during which a teacher and six others died when a spacecraft exploded. The show takes place in the past and the ...

CU Boulder held a memorial march Saturday to mark the 40th year since the Space Shuttle Challenger tragedy and the 23rd year ...

As the four-person crew of Artemis II prepares to launch on a historic mission around the moon as soon as February, some ...

On February 1, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia fell apart as it returned to Earth after spending more than two weeks in ...

The Challenger wasn’t the nation’s first space tragedy. Reaching for the stars comes with a cost. But this was the first spaceship to break apart on live television, exploding before our very eyes -- ...

Forty years on, the Challenger disaster remains a case study in what happens when organizations fail to allow for dissent and ...

I learned this week that there were two teacher candidates from each of the 50 states for the ill-fated Challenger mission by reading an article in the Charleston Gazette. Melanie Vickers was a ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA has delayed astronauts’ upcoming trip to the moon because of near-freezing temperatures ...