On February 1, 2003, tragedy struck the space shuttle Columbia, as earlier damage to the craft's left wing caused the shuttle ...

This week's letter to the editor of the Herald Times Reporter draws parallels between failures in the Challenger explosion ...

When Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated in 2003, investigators later examined whether a desperate rescue mission using Shuttle Atlantis could have saved the seven astronauts. The analysis revealed a ...

Robert "Bob" Springer's open-mindedness has taken him from the small town of Ashland to the skies of Vietnam and the halls of NASA.

Dover Air Force Base is tied to many major events and missions in American history. Learn about its use and recent ...

OPINION - JUDY FINNIGAN: We should never forget exactly what we mean when we say we're sending someone to space ...

This is the story of a man who never went to space himself, but, had they not been at that console, the space program might look very different.

In 1985, Ellison Onizuka became the first Hawaii-born astronaut to fly into space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery. Onizuka, a Hawaii Island native, died a year later with the crew of the Challenger ...

NASA’s new boss blasted Boeing and the space agency Thursday for Starliner’s botched flight that left two astronauts stuck for months at the International ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On February 15, 2013, a small asteroid exploded over the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on ...

Can NASA and Elon Musk get us to Mars and beyond?

SpaceX launched 26 missions from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39-A in 2025, including four human spaceflight missions. That era is coming to an end. A massive crane was put in place this week ...