The Learning Center in Tallahassee will commemorate the tragedy and the astronauts who died through a special book reading, a ...

NASA's new chief Jared Isaacman said a controversial proposal to move the space shuttle Discovery to Texas from its current ...

If you're planning to gaze at the night sky in the upcoming year, be sure to mark these dates in your calendar.

On June 28, 1983, Sally Ride became the first female in space aboard Space Shuttle Challenger. In September 1983, NASA announced that Anna would become the first mother to go into space when she was ...

A strange black fungus discovered inside the ruins of Chernobyl’s Reactor 4 doesn’t just resist radiation—it appears to feed ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope introduced research findings that forced a major change in scientific understanding of Uranus. The established knowledge about Uranus’s rotation period remained unchanged ...

NASA had launched shuttles safely 24 times before, and a sense of routine and hurry-it-up had crept in. The space agency wanted to pull off 15 missions in 1986. Repeated delays with Columbia on that ...

The Voyager 2 mission, which provided humanity's first and only close-up view of Uranus, revealed a planet with unexpectedly intense radiation belts and an apparently plasma-depleted magnetosphere.

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NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, who is currently in space on an extended stay thanks to certain faults in the Boeing Starliner spacecraft onboard which she launched to the International Space Centre ...

Ongoing issues with Boeing’s Starliner spaceship have been front and center this summer, but a new government report highlights other shortcomings of the company's aerospace work. The report, released ...

The role was created in response to the recommendations of a report that found the agency could do more to collect and interpret data on unidentified anomalous phenomena. By Kenneth Chang Pledging a ...