On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded after it was launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida in just 73 seconds which claimed the lives of seven astronauts.

Black History Month is a good time to celebrate notable Black scientists, like Katherine Johnson, Benjamin Banneker, and more ...

Opened in 2016, the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., tells America’s story through the lens of Black experience. That story, and the NMAAHC itself, is for ...

NASA's two stuck astronauts are taking their first spacewalk together, exiting the International Space Station almost eight ...

NASA astronauts Sunita "Suni" Williams and Barry "Butch" Wilmore have been on the International Space Station since June, ...

President Donald Trump took to social media this week to announce he had directed SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to “go get” two NASA ...

Director Cristina Costantini's documentary about the first U.S. woman in space bows at the annual Utah film festival.

Shubhanshu Shukla will pilot the fourth mission to the ISS. He has been a fighter pilot for 15 years and will be the first Indian pilot to travel to the ISS.

Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, ...

A daughter of former South African President Jacob Zuma has been arrested and is expected to appear in court on Thursday to face terrorism charges.

An American Airlines jet with 60 passengers and four crew members aboard collided Wednesday with an Army helicopter while ...

The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits fell last week in a sign that the labor market remains strong. Applications for jobless benefits fell by 16,000 to 207,000 for the week ending ...