ATLANTIC, Va. -- Crews searched for scorched wreckage along the Virginia coast Wednesday in hopes of figuring out why an unmanned commercial rocket exploded in a blow to NASA's strategy of using ...

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 ...

Bob Ebeling was anxious and angry as he drove to work on the morning of Jan. 28, 1986. He kept thinking about the space shuttle Challenger, cradled on a Florida launchpad 2,000 miles away. Ebeling ...

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 ...