NASA's space shuttle Challenger completed 10 missions before it broke apart during a launch in 1986, killing seven astronauts.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this image taken from video, a SpaceX Super Heavy booster is seen exploding June 18 at a test site near the city of Starbase.

A midair explosion of SpaceX’s (SPACE) Starship rocket in January created a serious and largely undisclosed threat to commercial aircraft flying over the Caribbean, forcing multiple pilots to make ...

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 ...

A JetBlue plane was en route to Puerto Rico when its pilots got word from air-traffic control they were about to fly through a danger zone. The plane initially went into a holding pattern to stay safe ...

The latest failure of SpaceX’s massive rocket system in South Texas did more than light up the night sky. It rattled nearby communities, raised fresh questions about who is actually in charge of ...

Following a successful year for Starship in 2024, SpaceX has endured a series of relative disappointments for the world's largest rocket in 2025. These failures followed on the heels of a year of ...

STARBASE — The late-night blast sent a fireball more than 2,000 feet into the South Texas sky and shook a miles-long swath of the Rio Grande Valley with the force of the military’s most powerful bombs ...