The destruction of the Space Shuttle Columbia shocked and devastated the entire world — but what do we know about the crew's final words?

Tragedy forced NASA to evolve. After Columbia burned up on reentry, engineers asked if rescue was possible - while years earlier, Challenger's explosion sparked plans for safer unmanned shuttles.

Discover how the International Space Station stayed alive after using Soyuz support and new shuttle inspections to keep science going.

It was 3 a.m. when William L. Scott was awakened by the blaring air raid alert from his phone. Click. Silenced.Amid a ...

A team of engineers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed ways to rapidly evaluate new thermal protection materials for hypersonic vehicles. Their three-year research project combined ...

Along the western edge of South America, the Andes Mountains encompass one of the largest concentrations of volcanoes on Earth. Many of these volcanoes are active, and in the historical record of ...

Christopher Colon-Martinez was found dead of an apparent drug overdose in his Walnut St. home, hours after he was allegedly ...

Four federal investigators are flying to the Bay Area to investigate how a gas leak led to a massive explosion, damaging multiple homes in Hayward. The National Transportation Safety Board is ...

The way we send each other off to the afterlife can vary depending on the culture. But generally, there are expectations for ...

In 2014, NASA awarded Boeing's Starliner a contract to fly astronauts to and from the International Space Station (ISS). But after some technical issues during Starliner's 2024 crewed test flight, the ...

A gas line explosion in Hayward, Calif., sent multiple victims to the hospital and led to a fire that burned several houses. By Soumya Karlamangla A gas line exploded on Thursday in a Bay Area city, ...

Six people were hospitalized in California following a devastating home explosion caught on video. Footage from a doorbell camera at a home near Hayward in the San Francisco Bay Area showed a property ...