Space was one of Sally Ride’s great loves. The National Geographic documentary, directed by Cristina Costantini, Introduces ...

Discover Belle Street's rich history with the 1912 Alton, Jackson & Peoria trolley that connected downtown Alton and the Piasa Valley.

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev issued a series of reforms and the Communist Party gave up its 70-year monopoly of political ...

We know we share this pain with all of the people of our country,” President Ronald Reagan said after the Challenger disaster ...

The 'scariest photo ever taken in space' has an incredible story behind it, as it captured an astronaut completely cut off from everything else.

I’ve been thinking a lot about poetry this week. Last Saturday, I sat in the Sutter Theater Center for the Arts and listened to 25 high school students recite from ...

Ride was married to Challenger classmate Steven Hawley, who appears among the interviewees. Like so much that orbited around that class of astronauts, the marriage between two space nerds got ink.

A person on X posted a picture last Tuesday. The picture was one of the pieces of the Space Shuttle Challenger recovered after its explosion on Jan. 28, 1986. The picture, posted by someone with the ...

On February 1, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia fell apart as it returned to Earth after spending more than two weeks in ...

The late space pioneer Sally Ride is the subject of a documentary, "Sally," that premiered to acclaim at the Sundance Film Festival.

An optical fiber FPV drone "KVN" carried out an attack on a British Challenger 2 tank belonging to the Ukrainian Armed Forces ...