When four NASA astronauts blasted off on Artemis-2, something was trending on the social media platform Bluesky. It was ...

On January 28, 1986, Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart just 73 seconds after liftoff. Pilot Michael Smith's final words ...

It's hard to watch a Space Center launch without thinking back to the Challenger disaster and also our fascination with the ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A large section of the destroyed space shuttle Challenger has been found buried in sand at the bottom of the Atlantic, more than three decades after the tragedy that killed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The memories are painful. Images from that tragic day still haunt those old enough to remember. It’s the 40th anniversary of the ...

NASA's Artemis II mission launched on April 1, marking the first U.S. space excursion of its kind since the 1970s. The 10-day ...

History Channel Finds Tragic NASA Challenger Wreckage After 37 Years ...

Seven astronauts were killed in the 1986 space shuttle Challenger disaster. Because a teacher was aboard, millions of schoolchildren watched the event live in school. Forty years later, many of those ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The front page of the Deseret News on Jan. 29, 1986, reflects the tragedy the day before as the nation watched a shuttle explosion ...

A new educational program using simulated space exploration was announced today to commemorate the Space Shuttle Challenger Mission STS 51-L that ended tragically on January 28, 1986. The program, ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published on Jan 28, 2025. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Jan. 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger ...