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

Another SpaceX Starship burst into flames during a test launch in Texas, sending a vibrant orange blaze into the night sky.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Federal Aviation Administration has issued a stark warning to air pilots about the dangers of exploding space rockets after a ...

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 ...

On February 15, 2013, a small asteroid exploded over the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] The shock wave from this explosion damaged thousands of ...

On January 16, SpaceX conceded that the latest prototype of its enormous Starship spacecraft had “experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly during its ascent burn” — a tongue-in-cheek admission that ...

SpaceX's 2nd Starship test flight exploded 8 minutes after liftoff, but Elon Musk says it could have been very different if the craft was carrying a payload. When you purchase through links on our ...

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 ...

The bright orange blast and trails of smoke in the Florida sky on Jan. 28, 1986, supplanted pride and excitement with stunned silence among the children and teens on Long Island and across the nation ...