In 1978 Nasa announced 35 new astronauts for a new era of spaceflight – and six of them were women. Here's how the Space Shuttle programme chipped away at one of Nasa's blind spots.

NASA says that a piece of the Challenger Space Shuttle has been discovered off the East coast of Florida, 36 years after the disaster.

Beyonce has been labeled "insensitive" by some current and former NASA astronauts and families for sampling audio from the space shuttle Challenger disaster for a love song off her newly-released ...

Mary Cleave, the NASA astronaut who in 1989 became the first woman to fly on a space shuttle mission after the Challenger disaster, has died at the age of 76, the space agency announced on Wednesday.

Robert Overmyer (Lorain) After years of working for NASA — flying as a pilot aboard the Columbia and assigned commander for a future Challenger mission that never happened — Overmyer served as a lead ...

"Unless something changes, it is highly unlikely the United States will beat China’s projected timeline to the Moon’s surface ...

The Challenger accident happened 30 years ago today. NASA is set to honor the victims of that accident across multiple states today.