The two solid rocket boosters flew in different directions as the external fuel tank became a fireball.(AP: Bruce Weaver / File) Forty years ago, the Challenger space shuttle disintegrated just after ...

NASA's Antares rocket exploded on launch this evening from the Wallops Island Flight Facility in Virginia just before 6:30 p.m. The rocket held a cargo craft containing more than 5,000 pounds of ...

If NASA’s colossal new moon rocket, slated to launch with astronauts for the first time as soon as Wednesday, explodes on the pad or breaks up as it accelerates through the atmosphere, the space ...