On this day 39 years ago, all eyes were on the sky when the Challenger spacecraft exploded shortly after it launched.

Eastern time on Jan. 16, 2025, a new rocket blasted off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. By reaching ...

(The NASA-designed Space Launch System reached orbit on its first attempt in November 2022, but that massive rocket was built ...

On Oct. 29, 1998, space shuttle Discovery carried 77-year-old John Glenn, the oldest shuttle astronaut, back into space. Glenn, an original Mercury 7 astronaut and the first American to orbit ...

Blue Origin will try, try again to launch its heavy-lift New Glenn rocket to orbit for the first time — if the Florida weather cooperates.

Just past 2 a.m. Eastern time on Jan. 16, 2025, a new rocket blasted off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in ...

Capping years of anticipation, Blue Origin's hulking New Glenn two-stage rocket may launch ... Nelson launches onboard space shuttle Columbia On this date in 1986, outgoing NASA Administrator ...

While SpaceX lost the upper stage of its new Starship in a flight test, the futuristic spacecraft presages a spaceflight revolution, says a leading U.S. space scholar.

Named after John Glenn, the first American to reach orbit ... New Glenn is smaller than SpaceX’s Starship but larger than the space shuttle. Credit: Jurgenspacerocket/Wikimedia Commons, CC ...

Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket is meant to shuttle cargo, satellites, and, in the future, people into space. The New Glenn is named after John Glenn, the first NASA astronaut to enter the Earth ...

The Space Shuttle Columbia and Space Shuttle Challenger Memorials are seen after a wreath laying ceremony that was part of ...

Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket stands on its Florida launch ... which is 50 percent more than NASA’s space shuttle could carry. The road to space hasn’t always run smooth.