Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Challenger explosion, which occurred 73 seconds after liftoff on Jan. 28, 1986, ...

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, left, speaks with, second from left to right, former NASA Administrators Bill Nelson, Charles Bolden, and Sean O'Keefe following a wreath laying ceremony as part of ...

Wish them well. Next month, four astronauts are expected to board a space capsule called Orion, blast off on a rocket known as the Space Launch System, and exit low-Earth orbit for the first time ...

NASA’s Artemis II wet dress rehearsal, a critical prelaunch test for the first crewed lunar mission since Apollo, was ...

Forty years after the Challenger disaster, NPR explores the engineers' last-minute efforts to stop the launch, their decades ...

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However, there is a third, far less discussed, factor too: the “normalisation of deviance” problem, as engineers and sociologists might say. This phrase first cropped up after the 1986 Challenger ...

WASHINGTON — NASA is ending financial support for several planetary science groups as part of a broader drawdown of the agency’s advisory structure. In a Jan. 16 letter, Louise Prockter, director of ...

NASA's new chief – Jared Isaacman — the youngest to ever hold the position, sat down with a reporter from NBC News to discuss the agency's future, particularly plans for space exploration. He had some ...

A NASA aircraft had to make a "gear-up landing" in Houston on Tuesday due to a mechanical problem, NASA spokesperson Bethany Stevens noted in a post on X. "Today, a mechanical issue with one of NASA’s ...