The two solid rocket boosters flew in different directions as the external fuel tank became a fireball.(AP: Bruce Weaver / File) Forty years ago, the Challenger space shuttle disintegrated just after ...

Space nerds, rejoice! A fully-stacked, 20-story tall space shuttle will soon be on display at a brand new exhibit, appearing ...

Sunday marks 38 years since the space shuttle Challenger lifted off on a chilly Florida morning and passed into history when the ship carrying seven astronauts -- one the first “civilian” in space, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At 8.15 a.m. on Jan. 28, 1986, New Hampshire social-studies teacher Christa McAuliffe sat with her six fellow astronauts ahead of ...

For millions of Americans, it was an event that would be seared into their memories for the rest of their lives – on par with the Kennedy assassination and 9/11. On that chilly January day in 1986, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By MARCIA DUNN CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A large section of the destroyed space shuttle Challenger has been found buried in sand at the bottom of the ...

Explorers trudged the Atlantic Ocean searching for World War II artifacts lost at sea, but they stumbled on something else — a 20-foot-long piece of debris from the Space Shuttle Challenger, which was ...

TITUSVILLE — Bruce Weaver, a Florida-based photographer who captured a definitive image of Space Shuttle Challenger breaking apart into plumes of smoke and fire after liftoff, has died. He was 77. A ...

The chilling Y-shaped smoke plume against a stark blue sky is still etched in many people’s minds. Now, another piece of the fallen space shuttle Challenger has been found, NASA officials announced ...

At 8.15 a.m. on Jan. 28, 1986, New Hampshire social-studies teacher Christa McAuliffe sat with her six fellow astronauts ahead of the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger from Kennedy Space Center ...