Columbia mission commander Rick Husband is most often spoken of in the context of his death alongside his fellow astronauts in 2003. However, he is remembered by his hometown of Amarillo as a ...

An exploding rocket rattled a small community north of Austin on Monday. Firefly Aerospace, which successfully landed an ...

Though NASA has a robust culture of safety, tragedy has occasionally struck. Three astronauts were killed during training for ...

US former NASA astronaut Joan Higginbotham, 60, who waited for nearly 20 years ahead of her 2006 space mission, says space tourists may be able to weekend in orbit in just five years' time.

Joan Higginbotham never planned on becoming an astronaut.

The Challenger Learning Center of Lockport is actively accepting registrations for its inaugural C.C. William Gregory 5k fundraiser on Saturday. The 5k is taking place in conjunction with the annual ...

Astronaut Scott Kelly reflects on his time aboard the International Space Station in this exclusive excerpt from his memoir, Endurance.

NASA officials said Monday they might go ahead with Tuesday's launch of the space shuttle Discovery even if a fuel sensor problem recurs that scrubbed the flight nearly two weeks ago. Discovery is set ...

The debut mission of Northrop Grumman's new jumbo cargo spacecraft didn't go off without a hitch. The company's first "Cygnus ...

A group of gold commemorative Sacagawea coins, seven of which traveled into orbit aboard a NASA space shuttle, recently sold for more than $3 million.

A large-scale earthquake, a devastating space shuttle explosion, and the most deadly terrorist attacks in American history. Shockingly, these unthinkable tragedies and more were all captured on camera ...