Solar Orbiter has revealed that tiny, hair-like jets in the Sun’s coronal holes are responsible for both fast and slow solar ...

causing the orbiter to be torn apart by aerodynamic stresses. It would take two years of investigations and modifications before a NASA space shuttle flew into space again. Discovery returned NASA ...

O-ring erosion on Discovery would have disastrous effects a year later It has been 40 years since NASA launched the first ...

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.

Today marks the 39th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster (Mission STS-51-L), when the shuttle's seven astronauts were killed by an explosion.

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Solar Orbiter first discovered the jets flashing on the surface of the Sun in 2023. Follow-up observations have not only confirmed that the tiny jets exist ...

It’s Black History Month! Gayle Anderson reports from the California Science Center about the development of the new Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center, the new home of the Space Shuttle ...

Space Shuttle Columbia launched on its ill-fated flight on the STS-107 mission. During liftoff, a frozen chunk of foam from the external fuel tank would fall off, crashing into the orbiter’s ...

When people think of a space shuttle they think of the American version – the space shuttle, or orbiter, a reusable, winged spacecraft that rode to orbit on a rocket but landed... The fastest ...

Space Shuttle Columbia launched on its ill-fated flight on the STS-107 mission. During liftoff, a frozen chunk of foam from the external fuel tank fell off, crashing into the orbiter’s wing and ...

A moment of silence will be observed at the time NASA lost contact with the orbiter’s crew ... his career at the Johnson Space Center (JSC) supporting the Space Shuttle, Space Station, and ...