Helping young people tap into their excitement about the night sky helps them build confidence and opens career pathways they ...

A "crowdsourced" project in which home computer users were enlisted to help analyze radio signals from space is ending after more than two decades.

NASA's Space Shuttle Challenger lifted off 40 years ago with six astronauts and a teacher on board. That legacy is being ...

Embarking on a spur of the moment astronomy lesson, Musk explained that the sun makes up some 99.8% of mass of the solar system, and that Jupiter, the biggest planet, is just kind of a rounding error ...

NASA’s 1986 Challenger mission was intended to inspire students to consider a future in space. The crew’s family is ...

“It was inherently risky, and space exploration continues to be so,” FSU history professor Ronald Doel said, referring to the Challenger mission.

The venerable Hubble observatory is going strong despite its decades in space and the advent of next-generation successors ...

A star projector shows stars in the night sky against an orange backdrop in the De Anza College’s Fujitsu Planetarium in Cupertino on Oct. 31, 2024. Photo by Magali Gauthier. On a recent evening, ...

New Hampshire school teacher Christa McAuliffe died on January 28, 1986 when the space shuttle Challenger exploded.

In her book, Natalia Rogach Alexander discusses how the celebrated thinker on democracy and education can still enlighten ...

History podcasts offer millions of listeners what classrooms and textbooks often cannot: making the past feel urgent, human ...

Lost that fateful day were Commander Francis Richard Scobee, pilot Michael Smith, mission specialists Judith Resnik, Ronald ...