NASA’s 1986 Challenger mission was intended to inspire students to consider a future in space. The crew’s family is ...

Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff while carrying seven people, including "Teacher in Space" participant Christa McAuliffe. Nobody survived the launch on Jan. 28, 1986 from NASA's Kennedy ...

A "crowdsourced" project in which home computer users were enlisted to help analyze radio signals from space is ending after ...

ESO’s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) has delivered amazing imagery of nearby stellar nurseries.

On Episode 195 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Gerry Griffin, former Apollo Flight Director and ...

NASA’s Space Shuttle Challenger lifted off 40 years ago with an unusual crew. In addition to six astronauts, the mission took ...

Embarking on a spur of the moment astronomy lesson, Musk explained that the sun makes up some 99.8% of mass of the solar system, and that Jupiter, the biggest planet, is just kind of a rounding error ...

The Callanish Standing Stones on Scotland’s Isle of Lewis date back to around 3000 BCE. Excavations reveal earlier wooden ...

Ahead of his interaction with school students at the Exide Kolkata Literary Meet, Prasun Chaudhuri catches up with Viswanathan Anand ...

Wednesday marked 40 years since the space shuttle Challenger accident that killed seven crew members. The mission was not ...

New Hampshire school teacher Christa McAuliffe died on January 28, 1986 when the space shuttle Challenger exploded.

A catastrophic failure occurred 73 seconds after liftoff as the shuttle emerged from “Max-Q,” the period of highest ...