The mementoes — a set of more than 50 pieces called the Sally Ride Estate Collection — sold for a total of $145,666, ...

CNN’s Miami correspondent, named to this position when the Miami bureau was established in December 1983. Zarrella is responsible for CNN's coverage of news in Florida, Central and South America and ...

Jan. 28, 1986, was the day NASA’s carefully cultivated image literally blew up at 46,000 feet.

At a time when money is too tight for NASA’s science exploration endeavors, Texas senators are willing to pour millions into ...

Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit 2 Disestablished; Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 10 Established  Front Page ...

NASA and Northrop Grumman successfully tested the most powerful segmented solid rocket motor ever created at Promontory Point ...

From the world watching in horror as the Challenger space shuttle exploded to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster that upended ...

The remains of more than 160 deceased people reached orbit yesterday on a spacecraft that hitched a ride on a SpaceX rocket.

Tardigrades get their nickname ‘waterbears’ from their cute and chubby look. Image via Depositphotos. Tardigrades, also known as water bears or moss piglets, are microscopic eight-legged animals that ...

The cremated remains of Wesley Dreyer — an aerospace engineer who helped investigate the cause of the Space Shuttle Challenger’s shocking explosion after takeoff on Jan. 28, 1986 — will also ...

Yes—and no. Outside Space Center Houston stands Independence, a full-scale shuttle replica mounted atop a real NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft. It’s impressive, but it’s not the real thing.