After soaring skyward due east, the rocket's first-stage booster landed aboard SpaceX's drone ship Just Read the Instructions ...

On February 7, 1984, 370 kilometres above the earth, NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless II floated into the payload bay of the ...

Test your knowledge of iconic U.S. astronauts and their historic space missions. This quiz covers pioneering achievements, ...

While terrifying, there's an overlooked NASA spacewalk which looks equally terrifying to untrained Earth-dwellers. In 1984, astronaut Dale Gardner and Joseph Allen flew untethered to recover two ...

Auroras (also called the northern and southern lights) are visible from the ground after powerful solar storms, but these ...

The Smithsonian Institution is fighting efforts by Texas lawmakers to relocate the retired space shuttle Discovery from ...

There are about three Space Shuttle orbiters currently in operation - Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour, which are all designed to fly at least 100 missions.

The unbelievable story behind the ‘most terrifying’ image NASA has ever taken of astronaut Bruce McCandless II who did the first-ever untethered spacewalk.

The astronaut behind one of the 'most terrifying photos' ever taken in space explained why it was it was chilling. The late Bruce McCandless II opened up about his history-making expedition before his ...

FILE – This photo provided by NASA shows the crew of the Space Shuttle Challenger mission 51L. All seven members of the crew were killed when the shuttle exploded during launch on Jan. 28, 1986.

It's been 39 years since the Challenger space shuttle, carrying seven people, took off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center, exploding in mere minutes.

The world was shocked and saddened 39 years ago after the Space Shuttle Challenger tragedy.