On January 28, 1986, Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart just 73 seconds after liftoff. Pilot Michael Smith's final words ...
For more than 60 years, nearly every large rocket used some combination of the same liquid and solid propellants. Refined ...
NASA’s powerful Launch Abort System — literally designed to outrun the debris from an exploding rocket and save the lives of ...
The full Moon is seen behind NASA's Artemis II Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft, standing atop a mobile launcher at Launch Complex 39B, Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026, at NASA's Kennedy ...
NASA has pulled off a high-flying aurora investigation, launching three rockets into the glowing northern lights over Alaska. One mission targeted mysterious dark patches called black auroras, while ...
At 5:15 a.m. ET Friday, Feb. 13, 2026 — a Friday the 13th — four crew members from three space agencies, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12, launched aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Liftoff ...
NASA announces nuclear rocket demo. NASA’s announcement Tuesday that it will “pause” work on a lunar space station and focus ...